Degeneration of masculinity in the fictions of Franz Kafka and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Journal: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium)
Year: 2013

The portraiture of masculinity in Western literature has changed overtime. There has been a shift from traditional traits of masculinity, to atypical traits of maleness as seen in modern fictions. The typical attributes of masculinity such as achievement, virility and patriarchal hegemony with which male heroes in pre- Victorian and Victorian literatures were endowed, are notably absent in the major works of Franz Kafka and Fyodor Dostoevsky. This study is an analysis of the male characters? deg