The Making and Mirroring of Masculine Subjectivities

Gender, Affect, and Ethics in Modern World Narratives
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-99148-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 351 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

This book shows how diverse, critical modern world narratives in prose fiction and film emphasize masculine subjectivities through affects and ethics. Highlighting diverse affects and mental states in subjective voices and modes, modern narratives reveal men as feeling, intersubjective beings, and not as detached masters of master narratives. Modern novels and films suggest that masculine subjectivities originate paradoxically from a combination of copying and negation, surplus and lack, sameness and alterity: among fathers and sons, siblings and others. In this comparative study of more than 30 diverse world narratives, Mooney deftly uses psychoanalytic thought, narrative theories of first- and third-person narrators, and Levinasian and feminist ethics of care, creativity, honor, and proximity. We gain a nuanced picture of diverse postpaternal postgentlemen emerging out of older character structures of the knight and gentleman.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mooney, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: Feeling Men—Emotional Masculine Subjectivities, Ethics, and the Postpaternal.- Part I. Fathers and Sons: Mirroring, Lack, and Masculine Subjectivities.- 2 Narrative Ethics of Care: Folding Fathers, Gifts Given, Subjectivity beyond Mastery.- 3 Ethics of Creation: Copy of the Copy: Sons' Narratives of Feeling of Selfhood.- Part II. The Gentleman Deconstructed.- 4 Ethics of Honour: Post-Gentlemen's Narratives and Affects of Alterity.- 5 Ethics of Proximity: Lack and Dispossession.- 6 Conclusion: Masculinities of Feeling at Matrixial Borderspaces.

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Mooney, professor of Comparative Literature at the University of South Florida, USA, is author of The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth-Century Novel (2008).