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Bearers of risk : writing masculinity in contemporary English-Canadian short story cycles /

"The short story and the short story cycle have long been considered a marginal genre, free to make room for fresh or risk-taking voices. But in thematizing masculinity in crisis, the premise of the marginal is used to elevate recuperative masculinity politics and nostalgia for traditional patr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gordon, Neta, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Determining Borders: John Gould's "Conversion"and the Frameworks for Analysis
  • Failing and Falling Men: John Gould's kilter: 55 fictions, the Microfiction, and False Heterogeneities
  • Tales of Discovery: Formal Constraints and the Desire for Originality in Paul Glennon's The Dodecahedron
  • "The Perfect Shade of Visitor": Stephen Marche's Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, Literary Parody, and the Unmarked Anthologist
  • "The Toughest Kid in Hebrew School": Suburbia and Whitening and David Bezmozgis's Natasha and Other Stories
  • Contagion and Containment: Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures and Expert Systems in the Cosmopolis
  • New Canadians: Anthony De Sa's Barnacle Love, Ethnic Enclaves, and Civility
  • The Wounded White Man: Bodies and/as Machines in Alexander MacLeod's Light Lifting
  • In the Background: Labour and Local Economies in Michael Christie's The Beggar's Garden
  • "Don't Write Cheques Your Body Can't Cash": D.W. Wilson's Once Your Break a Knuckle, Rurality, and Authenticity.