Men alone : : masculinity, individualism, and hard-boiled fiction / / Jopi Nyman.
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'...
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Superior document: | Costerus ; Volume 111 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1997] ©1997 |
Year of Publication: | 1997 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Costerus ;
Volume 111. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (390 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 Aims
- 1.2 Texts
- 2 GENRE AND GENDER
- 2.1 The Emergence of Hard-Boiled Fiction
- 2.2 Masculinity Embodied
- 2.3 Gender and Social Change
- 2.4 Gender and Adventure
- 3 CONSTRUCTING HARD-BOILED MASCULINITY
- 3.1 Body
- 3.2 Codes of Manhood
- 3.3 Language and Control
- 4 THE FICTION OF INDIVIDUALISM
- 4.1 Autonomy and Individualism
- 4.2 The Autonomous Male
- 4.3 The Individual Self
- 4.4 The Destruction of Individualism
- 5 THE LOSS OF IDEALISM
- 5.1 Dreams Deferred in The Postman Always Rings Twice
- 5.2 The End of Humanity in They Shoot Horses, Don't They ? 5.3 A Tragedy of Idealism in To Have and Have Not
- 5.4 Alienation in Red Harvest
- 6 MEN, DREAMS, AND ORDER
- 6.1 Hard-Boiled Sentimentalists
- 6.2 Masculine Omnipotence
- 6.3 A World of Order
- 6.4 Gendered Saviours
- 7 CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.