Author: Jopi Nyman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490000
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This study examines masculinity and individualism in four American novels of the 1920s and 1930s usually regarded as belonging to the genre of hard-boiled fiction. The novels under study are Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy, and To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway. In this first full-length study of gender in hard-boiled fiction the genre is discussed as a representation of the ideologies of masculinity and individualism. Hard-boiled fiction is located in its historical and cultural context and it is argued that the genre, with its explicit emphasis on masculinity and masculine virtues, attempts to reaffirm a masculine order. The study argues that this emphasis is a counter-reaction to more general changes in the gender relations of the period. Indeed, hard-boiled fiction is argued to be an attempt to reconstruct a masculine identity based on anti-modern values generally accepted in the cultural context of the genre.
Men Alone
Author: Jopi Nyman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490000
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This study examines masculinity and individualism in four American novels of the 1920s and 1930s usually regarded as belonging to the genre of hard-boiled fiction. The novels under study are Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy, and To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway. In this first full-length study of gender in hard-boiled fiction the genre is discussed as a representation of the ideologies of masculinity and individualism. Hard-boiled fiction is located in its historical and cultural context and it is argued that the genre, with its explicit emphasis on masculinity and masculine virtues, attempts to reaffirm a masculine order. The study argues that this emphasis is a counter-reaction to more general changes in the gender relations of the period. Indeed, hard-boiled fiction is argued to be an attempt to reconstruct a masculine identity based on anti-modern values generally accepted in the cultural context of the genre.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490000
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This study examines masculinity and individualism in four American novels of the 1920s and 1930s usually regarded as belonging to the genre of hard-boiled fiction. The novels under study are Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy, and To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway. In this first full-length study of gender in hard-boiled fiction the genre is discussed as a representation of the ideologies of masculinity and individualism. Hard-boiled fiction is located in its historical and cultural context and it is argued that the genre, with its explicit emphasis on masculinity and masculine virtues, attempts to reaffirm a masculine order. The study argues that this emphasis is a counter-reaction to more general changes in the gender relations of the period. Indeed, hard-boiled fiction is argued to be an attempt to reconstruct a masculine identity based on anti-modern values generally accepted in the cultural context of the genre.
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Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Pages : 592
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Unmanly Men
Author: Brittany E. Wilson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199325006
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This book examines key male characters in Luke-Acts with respect to constructions of gender and masculinity in the Greco-Roman world. Of all Luke's male characters, four in particular problematise elite masculine norms: Zechariah (the father of John the Baptist), the Ethiopian eunuch, Paul, and, above all, Jesus. These men do not conform to the strictures of elite masculinity, for they do not protect their bodily boundaries nor do they embody corporeal control.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199325006
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This book examines key male characters in Luke-Acts with respect to constructions of gender and masculinity in the Greco-Roman world. Of all Luke's male characters, four in particular problematise elite masculine norms: Zechariah (the father of John the Baptist), the Ethiopian eunuch, Paul, and, above all, Jesus. These men do not conform to the strictures of elite masculinity, for they do not protect their bodily boundaries nor do they embody corporeal control.
Progressive Stenographer
A Present to Youths & Young Men
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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The Greater Men and Women of the Bible
Author: James Hastings
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The New Voice in Race Adjustments
Author: Arcadius McSwain Trawick
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Function of Religion in Man's Struggle for Existence
Author: George Burman Foster
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Current Encyclopedia
Author: Samuel Fallows
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Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Pages : 770
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Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse
Author: Alfred William Pollard
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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