A dangerous fiction: subverting hegemonic masculinity through the novels of Michael Chabon and Tom Wolfe
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Main Author: Colbran, Louise (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bern Peter Lang 2012
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Item Description:Includes index
A multiplicity of selves: the function of authorial celebrity and the evaluation of the author in the novels of Chabon and Wolfe -- Playing at being men: sport in Wolfe's A man in full and The bonfire of the vanities and Chabon's Summerland -- Not so super-men: superheroes and heroes in Chabon's The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Summerland and Wolfe's The bonfire of the vanities -- The masculine mystique: contextualising masculinity within spiritual discourse in Chabon's The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Summerland and wolfe's A man in full -- A grand illusion: hegemonic masculinity as escapism in the novels of Chabon and Wolfe
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
ISBN:3034311168
3035104840
9783034311168
9783035104844

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