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Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders (Hardcover)
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Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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This volume is the first book-length study of masculinities in the
Sagas of Icelanders. Spanning the entire corpus of the Sagas of
Icelanders-and taking into account a number of little-studied sagas
as well as the more well-known works-it comprehensively
interrogates the construction, operation, and problematization of
masculinities in this genre. Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of
Icelanders elucidates the dominant model of masculinity that
operates in the sagas, demonstrates how masculinities and masculine
characters function within these texts, and investigates the means
by which the sagas, and saga characters, may subvert masculine
dominance. Combining close literary analysis with insights drawn
from sociological theories of hegemonic and subordinated
masculinities, notions of homosociality and performative gender,
and psychoanalytic frameworks, the book brings to men and
masculinities in saga literature the same scrutiny traditionally
brought to the study of women and femininities. Ultimately, the
volume demonstrates that masculinity is not simply glorified in the
sagas, but is represented as being both inherently fragile and a
burden to all characters, masculine and non-masculine alike.
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