Richard Ford and the fiction of masculinities
By: Josep M. Armengol ; foreword by Michael Kimmel
Series: Modern American literature: new approaches -- v57
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433110863; 9781433110511
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Masculinity as success? self-made manhood in A piece of my heart and Rock Springs; title: The buddy as anima? men's friendships in The sportswriter; title: Where are fathers in American literature? fatherhood in Independence Day and The lay of the land; title: Sexing men : male sexualities in Rock Springs and A multitude of sins; title: Richard Ford's revisions of violence as a test of manhood.