Violent adventure : contemporary fiction by American men / Marilyn C. Wesley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wesley, Marilyn C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Male authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Male authors.

Masculinity in literature.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Adventure stories, American--History and criticism.

Adventure stories, American.

Violence in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Men in literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 212 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: Constructive Violence and Adventure Narrative 1

Part 1 Violent Constructions

1. The Hero of the Hour: Richard Harding Davis 13

2. The Paradox-of Virility: Stories for Men 29

Part 2 Failure of Development

3. Boys' Lives: Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Pinckney Benedict's Town Smokes 43

4. Lacanian Westerns: Richard Ford's Rock Springs and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian 62

Part 3 Interrogation of Community

5. Young Goodmen at War: Thom Jones's The Pugilist at Rest and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried 83

6. Detecting Power: Ernest Gaines's A Gathering of Old Men and Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress 113

7. White Epics: Russell Banks's Continental Drift and Don DeLillo's Libra 140.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.

ISBN:

0813922127

0813922135

OCLC:

51293870