A Room of His Own In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow 1st Edition by Gloria Cronin 9780815628637 0815628633
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ISBN 10: 0815628633
ISBN 13: 9780815628637
Author: Gloria L. Cronin
The world of Saul Bellow is peopled largely by men, often intellectuals, who manifest Bellow’s unique conception of American masculinity. In this timely analysis of the Bellow oeuvre from a feminist perspective, Gloria Cronin offers a stunning and insightful critique of the Nobel Prizewinning novelist. Drawing on her comprehensive knowledge of Western thought and Western philosophical tradition, Cronin also incorporates the brilliant insights of French feminist theory on Western male philosophers into her critique. Cronin’s mastery of these intellectual traditions informs her fruitful examination of Bellow’s explicit dialogue, rich consideration of his “misogyny,” and the many masculinities he presents. Cronin demonstrates how Bellow’s almost exclusively ma1e protagonists simultaneously search for and destroy a lost feminine essence that they yearn for, and in so doing create their own prisons. She also looks at the self-irony pervading Bellow, the comic dimension of his character’s gender struggles, and the spiritual sensibility that attempts to reach beyond gendered and other paradigms of selfhood. A Room of His Own makes an extraordinary contribution to gender studies of masculinity and its formations.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: A Room of His Own: Monologists and Male Homosociality
Chapter 2: Those Dreadful Mothers
Chapter 3: Destructive Wives and Lovers
Chapter 4: The Land Elsewhere
Chapter 5: Reclaiming the Orphic
Chapter 6: Misogyny: A Mea Culpa
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