Ein Mann ohne Ehrgeiz, Konturen und Tatendrang – Parodierung von Männlichkeitsnormen in Jean-Philippe Toussaints Monsieur (1986)
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- The nameless protagonist of the postmodern novel Monsieur, written by Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint, can be described as a rather strange man. He lacks ambition, a drive for action and seems to be unfit for daily life. He constantly fails to accomplish his predestined role as a real man, as for instance to pay the bill for dinner when dating a woman. The scope of the present paper is to analyse, on the one hand, how this novel deconstructs hegemonial concepts of masculinity but, on the other hand, is in itself also a parody of theThe nameless protagonist of the postmodern novel Monsieur, written by Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint, can be described as a rather strange man. He lacks ambition, a drive for action and seems to be unfit for daily life. He constantly fails to accomplish his predestined role as a real man, as for instance to pay the bill for dinner when dating a woman. The scope of the present paper is to analyse, on the one hand, how this novel deconstructs hegemonial concepts of masculinity but, on the other hand, is in itself also a parody of the latter.…
Author: | Marco Antonio Cristalli |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329747 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen |
Language: | German |
Parent Title (German): | promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik |
ISSN: | 2364-6705 |
Year of Completion: | 2022 |
Volume: | 8 |
Pagenumber: | 37-60 |
Source: | promptus 8(2022), S. 37-60 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 84 Französische und verwandte Literaturen / 840 Literaturen romanischer Sprachen; Französische Literatur |
Tag: | Cultural Anthropology; Masculinity Studies; Postmodernism; literary minimalism |
Release Date: | 2023/10/27 |
Collections: | Zeitschriften (Journals) / promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik / Band 8 / Artikel / articles |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |