A Room of His Own

In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow

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Gloria L Cronin

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Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

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The world of Saul Bellow is peopled largely by men, often intellectuals, who manifest Bellow's unique conception of American masculinity. In this timely analysis of the Bellow oeuvre from a feminist perspective, Gloria Cronin offers a stunning and insightful critique of the Nobel Prizewinning novelist. Drawing on her comprehensive knowledge of Western thought and Western philosophical tradition, Cronin also incorporates the brilliant insights of French feminist theory on Western male philosophers into her critique. Cronin's mastery of these intellectual traditions informs her fruitful examination of Bellow's explicit dialogue, rich consideration of his "misogyny," and the many masculinities he presents. Cronin demonstrates how Bellow's almost exclusively ma1e protagonists simultaneously search for and destroy a lost feminine essence that they yearn for, and in so doing create their own prisons. She also looks at the self-irony pervading Bellow, the comic dimension of his character's gender struggles, and the spiritual sensibility that attempts to reach beyond gendered and other paradigms of selfhood. A Room of His Own makes an extraordinary contribution to gender studies of masculinity and its formations.

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Gloria Cronin, professor of English at Brigham Young University, is the author of Tales of Molokai and a number of books about Saul Bellow, including Small Planets: Saul Bellow as Short Fiction Writer, Conversations with Saul Bellow, and Saul Bellow in the 1980s.

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December 31st, 2000

Author

Gloria L Cronin

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

224

Series

Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

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152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780815628620

Product ID

3394205

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