Male armor : the soldier-hero in contemporary American culture /

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"In Male Armor, Jon Robert Adams examines the ways in which novels, plays, and films about America's late-twentieth-century wars reflect altering perceptions of masculinity in the culture at large. He highlights the gap between the cultural conception of masculinity and the individual expe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adams, Jon Robert, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
Colección:Cultural frames, framing culture.
Temas:
Men > United States.
Masculinity > United States.
War in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Hommes > États-Unis.
Masculinité > États-Unis.
Guerre dans la littérature.
Masculinité dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Men's Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Masculinity
Masculinity in literature
Men
War in literature
Krieg > Motiv
Männlichkeit > Motiv
Literatur
Soldat > Motiv
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : soldier's heart
  • "The great general was a has-been" : the World War II hero in 1950s conformist culture
  • The bridge to Vietnam : the war story and AWOL masculinity
  • Envelope, please : the metonymic male
  • Winning this time : the war that wasn't
  • Conclusion : time warp.

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