TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ochsner,Andrea
TI  - Lad Trouble: Masculinity and Identity in the British Male Confessional Novel of the 1990s 
T2  - Cultural Studies
SN  - 9783837611618
AV  - PR756.C56 
U1  - 823.914099286 22/ger
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Bielefeld : 
PB  - transcript Verlag, 
KW  - Confession stories, English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - English fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - British Studies
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Deconstruction
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Gender Trouble
KW  - Gender
KW  - Identity Crisis
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Performativity
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - In the 1990s, the male confessional novel, most prominently represented by Nick Hornby (»High Fidelity«), but also by writers such as Tim Lott (»White City Blue«) and Mike Gayle (»My Legendary Girlfriend«), articulated the structure of feeling of the male generation in their late twenties/early-to-mid-thirties.The book presents the advent of the male confessional novel in a fresh and yet critical light, challenging the feminist claim that the genre should be understood as a backlash against feminism and a relapse into sexism. By applying an eclectic theoretical framework, ranging from Raymond Williams to Anthony Giddens, Judith Butler and Jacques Derrida, the study illustrates why the male confessional novel is too complex a phenomenon to be solely interpreted in terms of retrosexism. It convincingly shows how the multitude of postmodern gender scripts adds to the crisis of identity and to the problematic nature of clearly defined gender relationships
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839411612
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839411612/original
ER  -