Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire

M. Keith Booker is an associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He has been published extensively in literary journals in this country and abroad, and he is the author of several books including: Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature: Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque, Literature and Domination: Sex, Knowledge, and Power in Modern Fiction, Vargas Llosa among the Postmodernists, and The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism.