INDEPENDENCE AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Discover the fascinating world of masculinity in literature and culture! This book is a journey through the complex relationships between politics, society, and identity. Learn how changes influence the perception of masculinity and how literary characters adapt to or rebel against new norms.

• In-depth analysis of masculinity studies
• Examples from literature showing gender tensions
• Examination of the impact of political and social changes on masculinity
• Discovery of uncertainty and the desire for an ontological foundation of masculinity
• Analysis of how changes resonate in male bodies

This book fits into the trend of masculinity studies, bringing closer the latest global research in this area. The author demonstrates the possibility of using these methodologies in the field of domestic literary studies, applying new concepts to the analysis of literary texts. This allows to show unconscious tensions introduced by unstable limitations of gender categories, common and transhistorical.

The analyzes promote tensions from literary texts that are invisible at first glance, thus opening a field for further research. The discussed plots show how changes in political, social, cultural and economic conditions modified the definition of what is masculine or unmanly, and how the characters reacted to these changes, sometimes trying to adapt, sometimes resisting.

Between the lines of texts, uncertainty, anxiety and the desire to establish an ontological foundation of the male gender can be found, which, however, is lacking in the secularizing, fluid reality. Changes resonate in male bodies, which is a fascinating research area for further scientists.

The University of Silesia Publishing House presents this work as an important contribution to the development of the humanities, offering new perspectives on the analysis of literature and culture in the context of changing definitions of masculinity.

Pages: 388, Format: 152x250 mm, Year of publication: 2023, Binding: paperback, Publisher: University of Silesia Publishing House, Number of pages: 388, Binding: paperback, Format: 152x250 mm