CiNii Books - Out of bounds : male writers and gender(ed) criticism

Until recently, "masculinity" and its impact on literary production and reception has received scant attention in the field of literary criticism. Although critics certainly have been interested in examining gender, they have tended to be far more concerned with the "feminine" side of the equation than with the "masculine". This book is an attempt to redress that imbalance. Positing that patriarchy victimizes men as well as women, the 15 original essays in "Out of Bounds" explore how certain male writers from the American and British canon have responded to the confines of the masculine code. The contributors apply a wide range of critical approaches and probe the gendered perspective in a variety of ways. These include examining a male writer's relation to his own masculinity; looking at his adoption of "feminine" values and attributes; discussing his subversion of gender stereotypes and oppositions; and exploring his conception of the binary terms "masculine/feminine". The essays analyze characters, authorial inscriptions, narrative and poetic form and the relation of gender and genre.

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"John John, I blush for thee!" - mapping gender discourses in "Paradise Lost", J. Wittreich
Job's wife and Sterne's other women, M. New
Where's Poppa? or the defeminization of Blake's "Little Black Boy", D. Ault
the bifurcated female space of desire, Shelley's confrontation with language and silence, L. Claridge
beyond the fragmented word - Keats at the limit of patrilineal language, M.B. Ross
"Vanity Fair" - listening as a rhetorician - and a feminist, J. Phelan
projection and the female other - romanticism, Browning, and the Victorian dramatic monologue, U.C. Knoepflmacher
"I stop somewhere waiting for you" - Whitman's feminity and the reader of "Leaves of Grass", K. Oakes
re-writing the male plot in Wilkie Collins's "No Name" - Captain Wragge orders an omelette and Mrs Wragge goes into custody, D. David
fictions of feminine voice - antiphony and silence in Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", M. R. Higonnet
Henry James and the uses of the feminine, W. Veeder
gesturing toward an open space - gender, form, and language in E.M. Forster's "Howards End", E. Langland
the resentments of Robert Frost, F. Lentricchia
Faulkner's fictional photography - playing with difference, J.L. Sensibar
mappings of male desire in Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" - homoerotic negotiations in the colonial narrative, J.A. Boone.

Volume: : pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780870237355

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Until recently, ""masculinity"" and its impact on literary production and reception has received scant attention in the field of literary criticism. Although critics certainly have been interested in examining gender, they have tended to be far more concerned with the ""feminine"" side of the equation than with the ""masculine"". This book is an attempt to redress that imbalance. Positing that patriarchy victimizes men as well as women, the 15 original essays in ""Out of Bounds"" explore how certain male writers from the American and British canon have responded to the confines of the masculine code. The contributors apply a wide range of critical approaches and probe the gendered perspective in a variety of ways. These include examining a male writer's relation to his own masculinity; looking at his adoption of ""feminine"" values and attributes; discussing his subversion of gender stereotypes and oppositions; and exploring his conception of the binary terms ""masculine/feminine"". The essays analyze characters, authorial inscriptions, narrative and poetic form and the relation of gender and genre.

Table of Contents

John John, I blush for thee! - mapping gender discourses in ""Paradise Lost"", J. Wittreich
Job's wife and Sterne's other women, M. New
Where's Poppa? or the defeminization of Blake's ""Little Black Boy"", D. Ault
the bifurcated female space of desire, Shelley's confrontation with language and silence, L. Claridge
beyond the fragmented word - Keats at the limit of patrilineal language, M.B. Ross
""Vanity Fair"" - listening as a rhetorician - and a feminist, J. Phelan
projection and the female other - romanticism, Browning, and the Victorian dramatic monologue, U.C. Knoepflmacher
""I stop somewhere waiting for you"" - Whitman's feminity and the reader of ""Leaves of Grass"", K. Oakes
re-writing the male plot in Wilkie Collins's ""No Name"" - Captain Wragge orders an omelette and Mrs Wragge goes into custody, D. David
fictions of feminine voice - antiphony and silence in Hardy's ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"", M. R. Higonnet
Henry James and the uses of the feminine, W. Veeder
gesturing toward an open space - gender, form, and language in E.M. Forster's ""Howards End"", E. Langland
the resentments of Robert Frost, F. Lentricchia
Faulkner's fictional photography - playing with difference, J.L. Sensibar
mappings of male desire in Durrell's ""Alexandria Quartet"" - homoerotic negotiations in the colonial narrative, J.A. Boone.

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