Anxious Men: Masculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-twentieth Century - Softcover

Baldwin, Clive

 
9781474494892: Anxious Men: Masculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-twentieth Century
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474494897 ISBN 13: 9781474494892
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2022

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Explores representations of men and masculinity in American fiction published after the Second World War
Offers readings of a wide selection of postwar American novels from 1945 to the mid-1950s, including canonical works, from the unique perspective of their representation of male identityProvides rich comparative insights through analysis of fiction by writers of diverse race, class and sexualityDemonstrates how gender theory generates insights into the constitution of American masculinity in fiction
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. It draws on gender theory and analysis of writers from diverse backgrounds of race, class and sexuality to provide rich comparative insights into the constitution of American masculinity in fiction. The extensive range of novels considered includes fresh analyses of key authors such as James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Patricia Highsmith, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Ann Petry, J. D. Salinger and Gore Vidal.

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Clive Baldwin is Honorary Associate of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University and formerly Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts, The Open University. His publications include a review of Maggie McKinley, Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75 in Culture, Society & Masculinities, 8:1, 2016, 'Digressing from the point: Holden Caulfield's women' in Sarah Graham. J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (London: Routledge, 2007), and ‘"A certain ill-defined disgrace": masculinity and sexuality in Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach', English Review, 2011.

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‘This is an exceptionally lucid, detailed introduction to the disruptive thought of Michel Serres. Christopher Watkin opens his admirable account by outlining Serres’s disagreements with Descartes and Plato, and with Serres’s adaptation of Leibnizian monadology. Rethinking space and time, language, quasi-objects and a new broad scope notion of ecology fill out an intense engagement with Serres’s powerfully enabling legacy. Both general readers and specialists are in Watkin’s debt for thus providing access to the strange new world of Serresian philosophy.’Joanna Hodge, Manchester Metropolitan University‘Christopher Watkin has written a marvellously lucid and accessible guide to the prodigious work of Michel Serres. Watkin takes account expertly of the whole spread of Serres's long career and breathtakingly various oeuvre, navigating through it not by text or theme, but by “figures of thought”. This is a brilliant device that allows him to pay attention not just to the matter of Serres's thought but also to its particoloured styles and textures.’Steven Connor, University of CambridgeA critical assessment of this important contemporary thinkerChristopher Watkin provides the first comprehensive introduction to Serres’ thought from The System of Leibniz (1968) through to his final publications in 2019. Working from the original French, he engages with both translated and major untranslated texts, providing a true overview of Serres’ thinking.Using diagrams to explain Serres’ thought, the first half of the book carefully explores Serres’ ‘global intuition’ – how he understands and engages with the world – and his ‘figures of thought’, the repeated intellectual moves that characterise his unique approach. The second half explores in detail Serres’ revolutionary contributions to the areas of language, objects and ecology.Watkin shows that Michel Serres has produced a cross-disciplinary body of work that provides a crucial and as yet under-exploited reference for current debates in post-humanism, object oriented ontology, ecological thought and the environmental humanities.Key Features•The first assessment of Serres’ thought as a whole•Brings Serres into conversation with other major thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy•Focuses on the repeated moves that characterize Serres’ thinking, making his writing more accessible for scholars across disciplines and showing how his ideas can be brought to bear on new areasChristopher Watkin is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.Cover image: © samphan/Adobe StockCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-0573-7Barcode

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'This is an exceptionally lucid, detailed introduction to the disruptive thought of Michel Serres. Christopher Watkin opens his admirable account by outlining Serres's disagreements with Descartes and Plato, and with Serres's adaptation of Leibnizian monadology. Rethinking space and time, language, quasi-objects and a new broad scope notion of ecology fill out an intense engagement with Serres's powerfully enabling legacy. Both general readers and specialists are in Watkin's debt for thus providing access to the strange new world of Serresian philosophy.' Joanna Hodge, Manchester Metropolitan University 'Christopher Watkin has written a marvellously lucid and accessible guide to the prodigious work of Michel Serres. Watkin takes account expertly of the whole spread of Serres's long career and breathtakingly various oeuvre, navigating through it not by text or theme, but by "figures of thought". This is a brilliant device that allows him to pay attention not just to the matter of Serres's thought but also to its particoloured styles and textures.' Steven Connor, University of Cambridge A critical assessment of this important contemporary thinker Christopher Watkin provides the first comprehensive introduction to Serres' thought from The System of Leibniz (1968) through to his final publications in 2019. Working from the original French, he engages with both translated and major untranslated texts, providing a true overview of Serres' thinking. Using diagrams to explain Serres' thought, the first half of the book carefully explores Serres' 'global intuition' - how he understands and engages with the world - and his 'figures of thought', the repeated intellectual moves that characterise his unique approach. The second half explores in detail Serres' revolutionary contributions to the areas of language, objects and ecology. Watkin shows that Michel Serres has produced a cross-disciplinary body of work that provides a crucial and as yet under-exploited reference for current debates in post-humanism, object oriented ontology, ecological thought and the environmental humanities. Key Features -The first assessment of Serres' thought as a whole -Brings Serres into conversation with other major thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-Luc Nancy -Focuses on the repeated moves that characterize Serres' thinking, making his writing more accessible for scholars across disciplines and showing how his ideas can be brought to bear on new areas Christopher Watkin is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Cover image: (c) samphan/Adobe Stock Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0573-7 Barcode

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Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474494897
ISBN 13 
9781474494892
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272
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