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The book stems from an interdisciplinary and transdiscursive approach to describe Polish masculinities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with the ""new masculinity"" that has become increasingly distinct in the early twenty-first century. A collection of texts, the book covers Polish literature from Romanticism to the present day to thoroughly rethink the Polish literary studies in the context of various masculinities shaped in Polish culture over the last two centuries. The individual texts study masculinity with a plethora of methods, ranging from psychoanalysis and deconstruction through feminist literary criticism to queer studies. The scrutinized works of fiction reveal invaluable culture data - often constituting the most important source of knowledge about reality - that no other field of art could map so precisely.

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Author:   Adam Dziadek ,  Filip Mazurkiewicz ,  Adam Dziadek
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.788kg
ISBN:  

9783631942765

ISBN 10:   3631942761
Pages:   564
Publication Date:   17 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Masculinity Studies Adam Dziadek Part 1: Historical and Theoretical Prolegomena De(re)construction of Masculinity Krysztof Klosinski Remarks on the Still Unwritten History of Masculinity in Poland Tomasz Tomasik Nineteenth-Century Masculinity: A Prolegomenon Filip Mazurkiewicz Fabricated Masculinity: On Homosociality Mateusz Skucha Part 2: Polish Masculinities of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Railways of Desire: Prus - Freud - Grabinski Tomasz Kalisciak Gender Relations Inside the Dulskis' Establishment Krystyna Klosinska Benedykt Dybowski and Wlodzimierz Popiel, or On a Certain Discourse of Polish Profeminists at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Mateusz Skucha Endangered Masculinity / Endagered Masculinities Krystyna Klosinska Seductive Patriot, Aroused Admirer, and the Complex Pursuit of Orgasm: On Erotic (Non)Masculinities in the Polish Interwar Nationalist Novel Dezydery Barlowski The Fascinating Allure of Masculinity Slawomir Buryla Excess of Masculinity: Boxing Narratives in Holocaust Literature Pawel Wolski Hegemony and Trauma: Literature after 1945 in the Face of Transformations of Masculinity Wojciech Smieja Part 3: Case Studies Witold Gombrowicz's Invisible Operetta: From Hegemonic to Atopic Masculinity Filip Mazurkiewicz A Piece of the ""Fedora"" Cake: The Male-Centered Imagination of Jerzy Andrzejewski Wojciech Smieja ""Made hysterical by Your Lack of Power"": Masculinity in the Work of Tadeusz Konwicki (Based on A Dreambook for Our Time) Agnieszka Wrobel Who are you? - Little Hans. The Polish Political Subject from the Viewpoint of Jarslaw Marek Rymkiewicz Dawid Matuszek Creature: Swietlicki Under the Guise of Masculinity Dawid Matuszek The prose of life: (Un)canny/unheimlich stories Grzegorz Olszanski The End of Masculinity or the Description of the Witcher Dawid Matuszek

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Adam Dziadek is a Full Professor of Polish Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, specializing in literary theory, poetics, scholarly editing, comparative analysis, and masculinity. Chief editor of Aleksander Wat's oeuvre, he published extensively about poetry and translated key works of literary theory. Filip Mazurkiewicz is an Associate Professor of Polish Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice. His research focuses on the Polish nineteenth-century novel and the broader cultural context of the period, along with issues of masculinity and modernity. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Wiek XIX.

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