| Judith Fetterley - 1978 - 232 sidor
...the drab duties of home and town toward the good companions and the magic keg of beer. Ever since, the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been..."civilization," which is to say, the confrontation of a man and woman which leads to the fall to sex, marriage, and responsibility.2 Engendered in melancholy, released... | |
| Georgiana M. M. Colvile - 1988 - 124 sidor
...only asexual, it is terrible. "13 The male protagonist, according to Fiedler, is "on the run . . . anywhere to avoid 'civilization,' which is to say,...woman which leads to the fall to sex, marriage and responsibility."14 In effect, Oedipa finds herself quite alone at the end of the novel; as she tells... | |
| Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 sidor
...protagonist, continues Fiedler, the protagonist seen as embodying in the universal American dream, has been "a man on the run, harried into the forest...woman which leads to the fall to sex, marriage, and responsibility." Confronting such plots, the woman reader, like other readers, is powerfully impelled... | |
| Georges Van Den Abbeele - 1992 - 212 sidor
...sexuality: "The figure of Rip Van Winkle presides over the birth of the American imagination . . . the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been a man on the run, harried inlo the forest and out to sea, down the river or into combatanywhere to avoid 'civilization,' which... | |
| Robyn Wiegman - 1995 - 284 sidor
...the psychic reversion to an imaginary innocence, a developmental inversion reflected in the fact that "the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been...down the river or into combat — anywhere to avoid . . . the confrontation of a man and a woman which leads to the fall to sex, marriage, and responsibility"... | |
| Michael Kimmel - 2009 - 402 sidor
...Stories of Washington Irving (New York: Signet, 1963), 43-57. Ever since Rip, writes Leslie Fiedler, "the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been a man on the run, harried into the forest or out to sea, down the river or into combat— anywhere to avoid 'civilization' which is to say, the... | |
| Leslie A. Fiedler - 1997 - 524 sidor
...duties of home and town toward the good companions and the magic keg of Holland's gin. Ever since, the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been..."civilization," which is to say, the confrontation of a man and woman which leads to the fall to sex, marriage, and responsibility. Rip's world is not only asexual,... | |
| Harry Stecopoulos, Michael Uebel - 1997 - 438 sidor
...the psychic reversion to an imaginary innocence, a developmental inversion reflected in the fact that "the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been...down the river or into combat— anywhere to avoid ... the confrontation of a man and a woman which leads to the fall to sex, marriage, and responsibility"... | |
| Axel Nissen - 2000 - 366 sidor
...hundred men that more or less fit Fiedler's description of the "typical male protagonist of our fiction": "a man on the run, harried into the forest and out...'civilization,' which is to say, the confrontation of a man and woman which leads to the fall of sex, marriage, and responsibility." Misogyny is not veiled in the... | |
| Deborah Homsher - 2000 - 264 sidor
...Winkle first climbed into the mountains with his dog and gun to escape the carping Dame Van Winkle, "the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been...woman which leads to the fall to sex, marriage, and responsibility."1 Our classic stories teach that a true American is baptized and strengthened by his... | |
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