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Men and Masculinity
We will work with masculine identity as it is expressed in three major literary periods: the renaissance, early modernism, postmodernism.
While working with Shakespeare we will focus on the genre of drama, Elizabethan language, and the renaissance as a historical periode as well as a world picture. We will take a look at Macbeth as the tragic hero and how his actions transform cosmos into chaos.
Hereafter we will study Hemingway and his unique minimalistic way of writing and examine what it means, according to Hemingway, to be a man. This topic draws parallels to previously read texts by Hemingway.
Then we will explore what it means to be a man today, through the analysis of the movie Fight Club by David Fincher based on the novel of the same title by Chuck Palahniuk We will look at the new role of men and the feminasation of society and the postmodern individual.
Keywords:
Cosmos versus chaos, The Great Chain of Being, Elizabethan world picture, hierarchy, tragedy, monologue, soliloquy, greed, ambition, duty, the tragic hero, the tragic flaw, emasculation, gender roles, masculine identity, violence, power, minimalism, postmodernism, the contemporary male.
Material:
Macbeth:
Fields of Vision: om Shakespeare, The historical and social context of Shakespeare, Elizabethan world view + the Shakespearean theater, The tragic hero, the tragic flaw, context and introduction to the play.
Along Literary Lines: act, drama, the renaissance, soliloquy, tragedy.
William Shakespeare: Macbeth
Act I, scene 1, scene 2, Act II, scene 1 (only Macbeth's soliloquy: "Is this a dagger which I see before me"), Act V, scene 1.
Film: BBC Shakespeare Animated Tales Macbeth part 1-3.
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber:
Ernest Hemingway: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Fight Club:
Material on postmodernism.
Film: Fight Club based on the novel by Chuck Palahnuiks of the same name.
Handout on Freudian analysis.
App. 50 pp.
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