Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000
Title | Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000 PDF eBook |
Author | A. Ferrebe |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 221 |
Release | 2005-12-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230502318 |
Tracing the influence of masculinity on fictional form and theme through an era of dizzying social change, this timely new book conducts a close analysis of English novels selected for contrasting definitions of the male gender, from the allegedly Angry Young Men to the contemporary confessions of Nick Hornby. The literary period since 1950 is interpreted as one of intense political and stylistic negotiation by male authors with the gendered subject-positions both of fictional characters and those who read about them.
Women Constructing Men
Title | Women Constructing Men PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah S. G. Frantz |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2010-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780739133651 |
Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters—heroes and villains—as in envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men, scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the eighteenth century until today. By rediscovering forgotten texts, rereading novels by high canonical female authors, refocusing the interest in well-known novels, and analyzing contemporary narrative constructions of masculinity, the contributing scholars demonstrate that female authors create male characters every bit as complex as their male counterparts. Using a variety of theoretical models and coming to an equal variety of conclusions, the essays collected in Women Constructing Men skilfully demonstrate that the topic of female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-read and re-discover almost every novel ever written by a woman writer, but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of gender and genre. In re-examining these male characters across literary history,these articles extend the feminist question of "Who has the authority to create a female character?" to "Who has the authority to create any character?".
Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel
Title | Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Martín |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2019-11-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000763315 |
Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort sits at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, arguing that the villain, in many works of contemporary British fiction, is a patriarchal figure that embodies an excess of patriarchal power that needs to be controlled by the hero. The villains' stories are enactments of empowerment fantasies and cautionary tales against abusing patriarchal power. While providing readers with in-depth studies of some of the most popular contemporary fiction villans, Sara Martín shows how current representations of the villain are not only measured against previous literary characters but also against the real-life figure of the archvillain Adolf Hitler.
Anxious Men
Title | Anxious Men PDF eBook |
Author | Clive Baldwin |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2020-03-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474423884 |
Focusing on a complex and contentious period that was formative in shaping American society and culture in the twentieth century, this book sheds new light on the ways in which fiction engaged with contemporary notions of masculinity.
The 1950s
Title | The 1950s PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Bentley |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2018-09-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350011533 |
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the 'Angry Young Men', an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E. R. Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham.
White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature
Title | White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Engles |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 243 |
Release | 2018-07-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319904604 |
White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature charts the late twentieth-century development of reactionary emotions commonly felt by resentful, yet often goodhearted white men. Examining an eclectic array of literary case studies in light of recent work in critical whiteness and masculinity studies, history, geography, philosophy and theology, Tim Engles delineates five preliminary forms of white male nostalgia—as dramatized in novels by Sloan Wilson, Richard Wright, Carol Shields, Don DeLillo, Louis Begley and Margaret Atwood—demonstrating how literary fiction can help us understand the inner workings of deluded dominance. These authors write from identities outside the defensive domain of normalized white masculinity, demonstrating via extended interior dramas that although nostalgia is primarily thought of as an emotion felt by individuals, it also works to shore up entrenched collective power.
Representing the Male
Title | Representing the Male PDF eBook |
Author | John Perrott Jenkins |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | 233 |
Release | 2021-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1786837803 |
A book entirely devoted to a subject in and of Wales that has not previously been published in Wales. The subject -- Masculinity -- is also a growing discipline in international study. The novelists presented societies and times in which they had either lived or continued to live. Working class or ‘proletarian’ fiction features in several UK and US university syllabuses. The book connects Welsh fiction to a broad, international context beyond an English regionalism.