Male anxiety increased during the early twentieth century in America, and the writers of popular fiction aroused “ma- cho” ideology between the two world wars. Some serious writers of the Lost Generation, however, adapted the notion of male anxiety to sophisticate their modernist “masculine” poetics as a gender performance. Ernest Hemingway, whose pur- suit of machismo made him a popular writer, is contrasted to F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose adaptation of femininity to his male protagonists eroded his popularity. William Faulkner transcended authorial male anxiety through his multiple pres- entations of male characters in The Sound and the Fury.
Key words :ジェンダー(gender),男性性(masculinity),モダニズム(Modernism),ウィリアム・フォーク
ナー(William Faulkner)
American Modernist Fiction and Its Masculine Poetics
SUWABE Koichi
English Linguistics and English-American Literature Abstract
Bulletin of Tokyo Gakugei University, Humanities and Social Sciences I, Vol. 58 (2007)
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