Literature and domination: sex, knowledge, and power in modern fiction

Introduction: literature and domination

This is not a pot: the assault on scientific language in Samuel Bechett's Watt

Tradition, authority, nad subjectivity: narrative constitution of the self in The Waves

Adorno, Althusser, and Humbert Humbert: Nabokov's Lolita as new-Marxist critique of bourgeois subjectivity

Mastery and sexual domination: imperialism as rape in Pynchon's V.

Who's the boss? reader, author, and text in Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler

Against epistemology in reading and teaching: the failure of interpretive mastery in Beckett's The lost ones.