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  title info:
    title: Heterosexual Masculinities and the Self-Reflexive Novel
  name:
    name part: Rossoni, Stefano
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Heterosexual Masculinities and the Self-Reflexive Novel examines how the narratives of four world-renowned authors, namely J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Philip Roth and Mario Vargas Llosa, offer a standpoint through which to address the inscription of heterosexual masculinity into Western literary legacy and the ways in which masculinity is re-fashioned in contemporary self-reflexive novels. Considering the interconnectedness of their narratives for the first time, the book explores unexamined patterns of dialogue among Coetzee, Kundera, Roth and Vargas Llosa while also contextualising their writing in the light of the European literary tradition inaugurated by Cervantes's Don Quixote and continued by Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Rather than building on conventional theoretical approaches to literary studies, Stefano Rossoni develops a fresh and engaging approach by looking at these two works not only as narrative texts but most importantly as theories of literature. In dialogue with critical contributions that examined men's emotional illiteracy and struggle to develop a language for self-reflection, the book argues that the narratives of Coetzee, Kundera, Roth and Vargas Llosa engage with the tradition of the self-reflexive novel and its ramifications to reflect on masculinity as a socio-cultural construction. Ultimately, their writing reveals men's novelistic self-reflexivity as a site of unintelligibility.
  note: Stefano Rossoni.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Coetzee, J. M
      name part: 1940-
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kundera, Milan
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Roth, Philip
      name part: 1933-2018
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Vargas Llosa, Mario
      name part: 1936-2025
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Heterosexuality in literature
  subject:
    topic: Masculinity in literature
  subject:
    topic: Self-knowledge in literature
  subject:
    topic: Hétérosexualité dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Masculinité dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Connaissance de soi dans la littérature
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kundera, Milan
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Roth, Philip
  subject:
    topic: Heterosexuality in literature
  subject:
    topic: Masculinity in literature
  subject:
    topic: Self-knowledge in literature
  classification: PN865 .R677 2025
  classification: 809.93353
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    name:
      name part: Theron, Stephen.
    origin info:
      publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025
    identifier: (OCoLC)1531206300
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    title info:
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  identifier: 9781800088757
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  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250201
    record change date: 20260520120812.1
    record identifier: in00005783548
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng