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Beckett's Masculinity: New Interpretations Of Beckett In 21st C, Jennifer Jeffers

Jennifer M. Jeffers

From Murphy to Rockaby to Worstward Ho, Beckett’s Masculinity illustrates how Samuel Beckett’s work functions as a testament to the site of memory for the historically erased twentieth-century Protestant, Anglo-Irish community. Jennifer Jeffers ably shows how Beckett converted his own personal traumatic loss of a masculine, patriarchal national identity into a sustained group of obsessive images in his texts. As Beckett’s work matured, he utilized the strategies of emasculation and gender distortion to dismantle Western masculinity. Beckett’s Masculinity shows that Western hegemonic masculinity was a source of private trauma and anxiety for Beckett; yet, he eventually transformed the twentieth-century …

Gender And Space In British Literature, 1660-1820, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

Sacrificio, Violencia Y Nación En Lituma En Los Andes De Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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Modelos Masculinos Y Violencia En Sanctuary Y Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

This essay analyzes how two novels, William Faulkner’s Sanctuary and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, present masculine models that juxtapose power and violence during times of social crisis. Both novels present violent masculinities that overcome peaceful masculinities, in conflicts that result in murders and rapes; but rather than acuse the individuals responsible for the violent acts, the texts point out the social mechanisms that inexorably move the authors of the crimes. In both works we also see violence against women and resulting public deaths of men wrongly accused, which happen due to an inability to adapt to …

The Man In The Text: Desire, Masculinity, And The Development Of Poe's Detective Fiction, Peter J. Goodwin

Peter J Goodwin

This article finds the kernel of Poe's detective fiction in his investigations into the construction of "gentlemanliness" that he began at Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. As precursors to Poe's tales of ratiocination, "The Man That Was Used Up" and "The Man of the Crowd" train the reader not to expect a satisfying conclusion to the mystery surrounding masculinity that the author has woven. In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the homoerotic desire to apprehend an integral masculine subject ends in frustration bordering on the absurd. In thus undermining the American ideal of masculinity as unified, integral, impenetrable, and fraternal, Poe …

Princes, Beasts, Or Royal Pains: Men And Masculinity In The Revisionist Fairy Tales Of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, James Carter

James B Carter

An examination of the roles men fulfill in select short stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.

Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy And The Supernatural In English And German Romanticism. (Book Review), Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

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Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity And Agency In Benito Cereno And El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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Pasado Soterrado Y Ánima Reprimida En La Muñeca Reina Y Chac Mool, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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Del Relato A La Pantalla: La Alteridad En Cabeza De Vaca, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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"Nación Y Masculinidad En La Narrativa Decimonónica: El Caso De Sab Y Aves Sin Nido", Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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"Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado", Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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Modelos Masculinos En El Cautiverio Feliz: El Ideal Medieval Y El Presente Degradado, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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