Umfang:
IX, 285 S.
Ausgabe:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0-521-65046-1
Inhalt:
"Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little recognized figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford, and, Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literary discourse as threshold figures who, by crossing the shifting, permeable boundaries of bourgeois domesticity, highlighted the limits of conventional masculinity. The very marginality of the figure, Snyder argues, effects a critique of gendered norms of manhood, while the symbolic function of marriage as a means of plot resolution is also made more complex by the presence of the single man. Bachelor figures made, moreover, an ideal narrative device for male authors who themselves occupied vexed cultural positions."--BOOK JACKET.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Amerikanistik
,
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Roman
;
Lediger
;
Englisch
;
Roman
;
Erzähler
;
Lediger
;
1857-1924 Under Western eyes Conrad, Joseph
;
1843-1916 James, Henry
;
Lediger
;
Literatur
;
Lediger
;
1843-1916 James, Henry
;
Lediger
;
Hochschulschrift
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam032/98045687.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam023/98045687.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam029/98045687.html
