| Judith Fetterley - 1978 - 232 páginas
...the drab duties of home and town toward the good companions and the magic keg of beer. Ever since, the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been..."civilization," which is to say, the confrontation of a man and woman which leads to the fall to sex, marriage, and responsibility.2 Engendered in melancholy, released... | |
| Georges Van Den Abbeele - 1992 - 212 páginas
...sexuality: "The figure of Rip Van Winkle presides over the birth of the American imagination . . . the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been a man on the run, harried inlo the forest and out to sea, down the river or into combatanywhere to avoid 'civilization,' which... | |
| Robyn Wiegman - 1995 - 284 páginas
...the psychic reversion to an imaginary innocence, a developmental inversion reflected in the fact that "the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been...down the river or into combat — anywhere to avoid . . . the confrontation of a man and a woman which leads to the fall to sex, marriage, and responsibility"... | |
| Michael Kimmel - 2009 - 402 páginas
...Stories of Washington Irving (New York: Signet, 1963), 43-57. Ever since Rip, writes Leslie Fiedler, "the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been a man on the run, harried into the forest or out to sea, down the river or into combat— anywhere to avoid 'civilization' which is to say, the... | |
| Leslie A. Fiedler - 1997 - 524 páginas
...duties of home and town toward the good companions and the magic keg of Holland's gin. Ever since, the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been..."civilization," which is to say, the confrontation of a man and woman which leads to the fall to sex, marriage, and responsibility. Rip's world is not only asexual,... | |
| Harry Stecopoulos, Michael Uebel - 1997 - 438 páginas
...the psychic reversion to an imaginary innocence, a developmental inversion reflected in the fact that "the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been...down the river or into combat— anywhere to avoid ... the confrontation of a man and a woman which leads to the fall to sex, marriage, and responsibility"... | |
| Axel Nissen - 2000 - 366 páginas
...hundred men that more or less fit Fiedler's description of the "typical male protagonist of our fiction": "a man on the run, harried into the forest and out...'civilization,' which is to say, the confrontation of a man and woman which leads to the fall of sex, marriage, and responsibility." Misogyny is not veiled in the... | |
| M. Thomas Inge - 364 páginas
...memorialize, however playfully, the flight of the dreamer from the drab duties of home and town . . . the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been a man on the run . . . anywhere to avoid 'civilization,' which is to say, the confrontation of a man and woman which... | |
| Paul Downes - 2002 - 255 páginas
...the drab duties of home and town toward the good companions and the magic keg of beer. Ever since, the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been...or into combat - anywhere to avoid "civilization," [and revolution?] which is to say, the confrontation of a man and woman which leads to the fall to... | |
| Axel Nissen - 2003 - 300 páginas
...the basis for Leslie Fiedler's famous assertion in Love and Death in the American Novel (1960) that "the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been...down the river or into combat — anywhere to avoid . . . the confrontation of a man and a woman which leads to the fall of sex, marriage, and responsibility."1... | |
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