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Statut et fonction du personnage masculin chez Madame de Staël
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ISBN: 2745306472 Year: 2002 Volume: 70 Publisher: Paris Honoré Champion Editeur


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Rebel Men : Masculinity and Attitude in Postsocialist Chinese Literature
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ISBN: 9888754777 Year: 2022 Publisher: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press,

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Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. At the same time, Chinese literature since 1989 has been characterized as brimming with countercultural 'attitude'. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and manhood in China, showing how male writers, as they critique the outcomes of decades of market reform, also ask the same question: how best to be a man in the new postsocialist order?In this first full-length discussion of masculinity in post-1989 Chinese literature, Pamela Hunt offers a detailed analysis of four contemporary authors in particular: Zhu Wen, Feng Tang, Xu Zechen, and Han Han. In a series of insightful readings, she explores how all four writers show the same preoccupation with the figure of the man on the edges of society. Drawing on longstanding Chinese and global models of maverick and marginal masculinity, and responding to a desire to retain a measure of masculine authority, their characters all engage in forms of transgression that still rely heavily on heteronormative and patriarchal values. Rebel Men argues that masculinity, so often overlooked in literary analysis of contemporary China, continues to be renegotiated, debated, and agonized over, and is ultimately reconstructed as more powerful than before.

Marked men : white masculinity in crisis
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ISBN: 0231112920 9780231112925 0231112939 9780231112932 023150036X Year: 2000 Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press,

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White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike, James Dickey, John Irving, and Pat Conroy and such films as Deliverance, Misery, and Dead Poets Society-as well as other writings, including The Closing of the American Mind-Sally Robinson argues that white men are tempted by the possibilities of pain and the surprisingly pleasurable tensions that come from living in crisis.


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Ecrire les hommes : personnages masculins et masculinité dans l'oeuvre des écrivaines de la Belle Epoque
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ISBN: 9782842923457 2842923456 Year: 2012 Volume: *4 Publisher: Saint-Denis Presses universitaires de Vincennes

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During the Belle Epoque real novelists who wrote with originality, boldness and lucidity. Today famous or fallen into oblivion, sometimes hidden under a male pseudonym, they fashioned numerous figures of the opposite sex: father, husband, lover, son, man-object predator, patriarch, seducer, enemy, executioner, mentor ... Prince Charming. This book testifies to the environment. Result of a series of studies with finesse conducted by an international team of specialists, it revives the "paper men" imagine past by nine women writers: Therese Bentzon, Colette, Louise-Marie Compain, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus Daniel Lesueur, Anna de Noailles, Georges Peyrebrune Rachilde and Marcelle Tinayre. This work invites the reader to discover how these authors transgressed subtly Panegyrists discourses of masculinity.

Mannsbilder - Männerbilder : Konstruktion und Kritik des Männlichen in zeitgenössischer deutschsprachiger Literatur von Frauen
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ISBN: 3487090953 Year: 1988 Volume: 29 Publisher: Hildesheim Olms


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Edith Wharton and the unsatisfactory man
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ISBN: 0312035659 Year: 1991 Publisher: London : Vision,

Becoming male in the middle ages
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ISBN: 0815337701 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York, NY : Garland,

Taking it like a man
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ISBN: 0691058768 0691016372 9786612753367 1400813271 1400822467 1282753363 9781400822461 9781400813278 9780691058764 9780691016375 9781282753365 6612753366 140080700X Year: 1998 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940's, when many white, middle-class men moved into a rule-bound, corporate culture, Savran sifts through literary, cinematic, and journalistic examples that construct the white man as victimized, feminized, internally divided, and self-destructive. Savran considers how this widely perceived loss of male power has played itself out on both psychoanalytical and political levels as he draws upon various concepts of masochism--the most counterintuitive of the so-called perversions and the one most insistently associated with femininity. Savran begins with the writings and self-mythologization of Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. Although their independent, law-defying lifestyles seemed distinctively and ruggedly masculine, their literary art and personal relations with other men in fact allowed them to take up social and psychic positions associated with women and racial minorities. Arguing that this dissident masculinity has become increasingly central to U.S. culture, Savran analyzes the success of Sam Shepard as both writer and star, as well as the emergence of a new kind of action hero in movies like Rambo and Twister. He contends that with the limited success of the civil rights and women's movements, white masculinity has been reconfigured to reflect the fantasy that the white male has become the victim of the scant progress made by African Americans and women. Taking It Like a Man provocatively applies psychoanalysis to history. The willingness to inflict pain upon the self, for example, serves as a measure of men's attempts to take control of their situations and their ambiguous relationship to women. Discussing S/M and sexual liberation in their historical contexts enables Savran to consider not only the psychological function of masochism but also the broader issues of political and social power as experienced by both men and women.

Homoeroticism in classical Arabic literature
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ISBN: 023110507X 0231105061 9780231105071 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York : Columbia Univesity Press,

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