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Dialogic, but Monologic: Toxic Masculinity Meets #MeToo in Teddy Wayne’s Campus Novel Loner

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Kowal E.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2023

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nr 13

376-395

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Teddy Wayne’s 2016 Loner tells the story of a Harvard freshman’s sexual obsession with a fellow student, leading to stalking and attempted rape. On a deeper level, the campus novel can be interpreted as a critique of wider processes taking place in American academia and generally in the US: the mainstreaming of the so-called “woke” movement and the growing impact of “political correctness.” The novel also reflects on class inequality, privilege, gender politics, the ongoing crisis of white (heterosexual) masculinity, toxic masculinity, and online “incel culture.” The present paper will analyze the problematic “dialogic, but monologic” nature of the book’s unreliable narrative addressing the above problems. The paper’s goal will be to read Loner in light of the #MeToo movement as an illustration of the current stage of the now decades-long reckoning with rape culture, and with patriarchy.

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CRISIS OF MASCULINITY, EROTIC CAPITAL AND MALE GROOMING IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

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ROUBAL O. , CIRKLOVÁ J.

Communication Today

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2020

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tom 11

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nr 2

18 - 34

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Beauty is an objective reality, not a myth. For some time, the biological sciences, sociobiology and sociology have demonstrated the role of beauty as a factor influencing a number of life circumstances. Recently the theory of erotic capital has grown in sociological thought, which spreads and deepens the concept of human capital to include another important dimension. Erotic capital as a complex quality includes not only physical attractiveness and sexual attractiveness but also social competence, temperament, sexuality and a capacity for self-presentation. This capacity for self-presentation is dependent on the ability to groom, to care for one’s own appearance and body. The goal of this study is to demonstrate that this dimension of erotic capital has become a relevant life strategy for a male population as components of a formula for life success, and that they are willing to invest ever more funds in grooming. We are seeking to support the hypothesis that a relationship exists between efforts to increase one’s own attractiveness and desire for success. What can be identified as “male grooming” is a growing economic sector, supported by an ever more robust marketing industry. We have reached the conclusion that the media-constructed narrative of male grooming can be effectively communicated as the potential to achieve a hegemonic masculinity, i.e. dominance and success in the socioeconomic dimension of life, which corresponds to the empirical findings of sociologists. It is thereby possible to respond to perceptions of male grooming as an expression of a crisis of masculinity, or rather of a submissive and marginalised masculinity unappealing and rejected by the heterosexual male population.

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The Great War Revisited: The Laughter of the Fool and the Shame of the Coward in Paul Bailey’s Old Soldiers

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Sokołowska-Paryż M.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2012

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nr 21/1

17-30

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The purpose of the paper is an analysis of the representations of the cultural memory of the Great War in Paul Bailey’s novel Old Soldiers. The discussion will focus on the metaphorical representation of the futility myth (laughter) and the psychological representation of the crisis of masculinity (shame). The laughter of the fool has obvious connotations with the Book of Ecclesiastes, yet, as the analysis will prove, the depiction of the memory of the first day of the Somme battle through the prism of laughter has an important predecessor in Ted Hughes’s poetic sequence Crow. The attempts to escape the memory of cowardly conduct will be set in the context of the psychology of shame, which will allow deeper insight into the construction of the antihero in British literature about the Great War.

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Ulanen und Stahlhelden. Konstruktion der polnischen und deutschen militärischen Männlichkeit im Kontext des Ersten Weltkrieges

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Szczepaniak M.

Convivium. Germanistisches Jahrbuch Polen

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2007

95-118

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Artykuł stanowi pierwszą próbę rozpoznania podobieństw i różnic w konstytuowaniu się polskiej i niemieckiej męskości militarnej w szeroko pojętym kontekście kulturowym pierwszej wojny światowej. Podstawowe pytanie dotyczy kwestii ogólnej militaryzacji męskości i konstrukcji ‚twardego‘ maskulinizmu, który w niemieckich warunkach kryzysu męskości był dominujący, a w polskich warunkach nadziei „przed złotym czasem“ (STANISŁAW DŁUGOSZ 1917) nie odegrał znaczącej roli. Teza o hegemonialnych paradygmatach polskiego porywczego ułana i niemieckiego „stalowego bohatera” dyskutowana jest na przykładach tekstów literackich ideologizujących każdorazowo „pożądaną” męskość bohatera walki ze wskazaniem na próby dekonstrukcji tych paradygmatów.

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The article is the first attempt of recognition of similarities and differences in forming Polish and German military masculinity, in the widely understood culture context of WWI. The fundamental question here refers to the issue of general militarization of masculinity and the constructing of ‚hard‘ masculinity ideology, which was dominant in the atmosphere of masculinity crisis in Germany and, in Poland, in the atmosphere of hope „before the golden time“ (STANISŁAW DŁUGOSZ 1917) did not play the crucial role. The thesis on hegemonic paradigms of a Polish impetuous lancer and a German „steel hero“ is discussed on the basis of literary texts, which always offer ideologization of the „desired“ masculinity of a battle’s hero, pointing at the attempts of deconstructing these paradigms.

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Der Beitrag unternimmt einen ersten Versuch, Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede in der Konstituierung der deutschen und polnischen militärischen Männlichkeit im breit gefassten kulturellen Kontext des Ersten Weltkrieges zu erkennen. Das Grundanliegen bezieht sich auf das Problem der allgemeinen Militarisierung von Männlichkeit und die Konstruktion eines ‚harten‘ Maskulinismus, der unter den Bedingungen der Männlichkeitskrise in Deutschland dominierte und im polnischen Raum, wo man auf die so genannte „goldene Zeit“ (STANISŁAW DŁUGOSZ 1917) hoffte, wohl keine bedeutende Rolle spielte. Die hegemonialen Paradigmen des polnischen verwegenen Ulanen einerseits und des deutschen Stahlhelden andererseits werden am Beispiel von literarischen Texten diskutiert, die die jeweils erwünschte Männlichkeitsvariante des kämpfenden Helden ideologisieren. Hingewiesen wird aber auch auf literarische Versuche, diese Paradigmen zu dekonstruieren.