Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature: Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque

 

Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the world's most respected and widely read living writers.  His work is marked by technical sophistication and by its alliance with a variety of trends in modern culture.  To date little criticism of his work has made use of the important developments in literary theory in the past two decades.  This book does that, analyzing Vargas Llosa's place in modern and postmodern criticism.
 

M. Keith Booker is associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas and the author of Literature and Domination: Sex, Knowledge, and Power in Modern Fiction (UPF, 1993), Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature: Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque (UPF, 1991) and a number of essays on literature and literary theory.  He began his career in science and engineering and worked for fourteen years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.