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  1. A dangerous fiction
    subverting hegemonic masculinity through the novels of Michael Chabon and Tom Wolfe
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3034311168; 3035104840; 9783034311168; 9783035104844
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Masculinity in literature; Popular culture; Geschichte; Masculinity in literature; Popular culture; Männlichkeit <Motiv>; Roman; Subversion <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Chabon, Michael; Wolfe, Tom; Chabon, Michael; Wolfe, Tom; Chabon, Michael; Wolfe, Tom; Chabon, Michael (1963-); Wolfe, Tom (1931-2018)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
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    Includes index

    A multiplicity of selves: the function of authorial celebrity and the evaluation of the author in the novels of Chabon and Wolfe -- Playing at being men: sport in Wolfe's A man in full and The bonfire of the vanities and Chabon's Summerland -- Not so super-men: superheroes and heroes in Chabon's The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Summerland and Wolfe's The bonfire of the vanities -- The masculine mystique: contextualising masculinity within spiritual discourse in Chabon's The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Summerland and wolfe's A man in full -- A grand illusion: hegemonic masculinity as escapism in the novels of Chabon and Wolfe