Manifestations of male image in the world's cultures / edited by Renata Iwicka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Iwicka, Renata, editor.

Series:

The Vastness of Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men in literature.

Men in popular culture.

Men in art.

Men in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press, 2021.

Summary:

<i>Manifestations of Male Image in the World's Cultures</i> shows a single cultural phenomenon from a number of diverse perspectives. Methods used to analyze the titular male image range from Literary Studies and Cultural Studies to Media Studies. Thanks to the authors' broad experience in various fields of academic research, the volume presents this highly layered theme in a truly interdisciplinary way. I perceive the multiauthored - and therefore 'polyphonic' - collection as a truly original attempt to build a framework of humanistic thought that is based on clear theoretical and methodological criteria. Moreover, its open character allows the use and merging of a number of humanistic methods, such as the aforementioned Literary or Cultural Studies, with other inspirations that, layer by layer, add the depth and provide further insight into the relationship between the 'male image' and broadly understood cultural practices.

Contents:

Intro

PREFACE

Anna Kuchta, Joanna Malita-Król: "A jewel beyond compare": Prince Hikaru Genji as a perfect male of the Heian period in the light of popular culture theories

Katarzyna Borkowska: Cicero and male virtue

Agnieszka Gondor-Wiercioch: Kill the Savage, Save the Man - James Welch's Chronicle of Native American History

Khalil A. Arab, Mateusz M. Kłagisz: On (self-)representations of masculinity in Siyāmak Herawiʼs short stories

Kwasu David Tembo: Power, Masculinity, and War: Superman, a Case Study

Renata Iwicka: Redefining New Masculinity in Korean Television Drama Series

Ksenia Olkusz: Stripping the Vampire. Erotic Imaginations and Sexual Fantasies in Paranormal Romances (a study of selected examples)

Joanna Malita-Król: The Horned God: divine male principle in British Traditional Wicca

Biographical Notes of the Authors.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2023).

ISBN:

83-233-7273-X

OCLC:

1346366260