Writing Men
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Writing Men

Literary Masculinities from Frankenstein to the New Man

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Writing Men

Literary Masculinities from Frankenstein to the New Man

About this book

Berthold Schoene-Harwood develops a trajectory of masculine emancipation from the monstrous imagery of nineteenth-century fiction to contemporary men writers' experimental new discourse of écriture masculine.

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Year
2000
Print ISBN
9780748610006
eBook ISBN
9781474472364

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Part I Monsters, Heroes and Ghosts: Narratives of Masculine Self-(De)Formation
  4. Part II Masks of Saveraery and Acts of Anger: Perspectives on Patriachal Conditoning
  5. Part III Man's Progeny: Towards an éciture masculine
  6. 8 Dams Burst: Iain Bank's The Wasp Factory
  7. 9 The Exquisite Negative of His Sex: Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve
  8. 10 This Stiff State Does Not Suit Man: Alasdair Gray's 1982 Janine
  9. 11 The Dark Continent of Masculinity: Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares
  10. 12 The U-Turn of the Father:Ian McEwan's The Child in Time
  11. Part IV Coming OUr of Bildung: A Case of Gay Subversion
  12. 13 Of Ceremonies: Neil Bartlett's Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index

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