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A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow

by Gloria L. Cronin
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780815628620
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Syracuse University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press
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  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: USD 39.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 418 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Jewish

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.

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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