The Making and Mirroring of Masculine Subjectivities: Gender, Affect, and Ethics in Modern World Narratives (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030991456)

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.

Author: Susan Mooney
ISBN-10: 3030991458
ISBN-13: 9783030991456
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2022
Pages: 351
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d