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- Proposes a bold new re-examination of the concept of 'the male gaze'
- Examines a wide range of written, visual, and aural works from the USA and UK
- Represents the latest work by by James D. Bloom, an eminent humanities scholar
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Global Masculinities (GLMAS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Male gazing has typically been disparaged and even stigmatized as a reflection of misogyny and an instrument of objectification, often justifiably so. But as this book argues and illustrates, male gazing can also be understood as an illuminating, intellectually engaging, aesthetically compelling, and even politically progressive practice. This study recounts how the author’s own coming-of-an-age as a gazer became the basis for his long career teaching and writing about American fiction and poetry and poetry, canonical and contemporary, as well as about film, painting, TV, and rock-and-roll. It includes closely-reasoned analyses of work by James Baldwin, Rembrandt, Willa Cather, Philip Roth, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Bob Dylan, Robert Stone,Tim O’Brien, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Frank O’Hara, Italo Calvino, John Schlesinger as well such cultural phenomena as the British Invasion of the 1960s, the Judgment of Paris in Greek mythology, the technology of seeing (kaleidoscopes, microscopes, telescopes) and the concept of 'objectification' itself.
Authors and Affiliations
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Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA
James D. Bloom
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reading the Male Gaze in Literature and Culture
Book Subtitle: Studies in Erotic Epistemology
Authors: James D. Bloom
Series Title: Global Masculinities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59945-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59944-1Published: 19 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86740-3Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59945-8Published: 06 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3858
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3866
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 225
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Gender Studies, Film Theory