Paper IV: Memory, Melancholy and Masculinity in Selected Writings of John Updike and Philip Roth

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (A)
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
60/per sem
Max. Marks: 
100
Unit I: 
Unit I

Memory in Literary Studies

  • Kattago, Siobhan. “Introduction: Memory Studies and its Companions.” The Ashgate 

      Research Companion to Memory Studies, Routledge, 2014.

 

  • Skopljanac, lovro. “Literature Through Recall: Ways of Connecting Literary Studies and Memory Studies.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Penn State University Press, vol. 14, no. 2, 2016, pp. 197-212, JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.14.2.0197.

 

 

Unit II: 
Unit II

Melancholy in Postwar American Literature

  • Clewell, Tammy. “Introduction: Rethinking Loss; Remapping the Novel.” Mourning,

      Modernism, Postmodernism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 1-25.

 

Unit III: 
Unit III

Masculinity in American Literature

·Connell, R.W. “The Social Organization of Masculinity” Masculinities, University of California Press, 2005, pp. 67-71.---. “The History of Masculinity” Masculinities, University of California Press, 2005, pp. 186-99.

 

 

Unit IV: 
Unit IV

John Updike:

The Centaur

Upon the Farm

·Greiner, Donald J. “Contextualizing John Updike.” Contemporary Literature, University of

      Wisconsin Press, vol. 43, no. 1, 2002, pp. 194-202, JSTOR,

   https://www.jstor.org/stable/1209022.

·Powers, Peter Kerry. “Scribbling for a life: Masculinity, Doctrine, and Style in the Work of John

      Updike.” Christianity and Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 43, no. 3/4, 1994, pp. 329-346. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/44312323.

 

 

Unit V: 
Unit V

Phillip Roth:

Portnoy’s Complaint

The Plot Against America

  • Kremer, S. Lillian. “Philip Roth’s Self-Reflexive Fiction,” Modern Language Studies, Modern

      Language Studies, vol. 28, no.3/4, 1998, pp. 57-72, JSTOR, http://americanpastoral.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/S.%20Lillian%20Kremer%20Self-Reflexive%20Fiction%20Roth.pdf.

  • Segal, Lynne. “The Circus of (Male) Ageing: Philip Roth and the Perils of Masculinity”

      Psychosocial Imaginaries: Perspectives on Temporality, Subjectivities and Activism. Edited by Stephen Frosh, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 87-104.

 

Source Books: 

Suggested Readings:

Baldwin, Clive. Anxious Men: Masculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth Century. Edinburgh Press, 2020.

Brod, Harry. The Making of Masculinities: The New Man’s Studies. Routledge, 1987.

Freud, Sigmund. “Mourning and Melancholia.” The Standard Edition of the Complete

Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Translated by James Strachey, The Hogarth Press, vol. 14, 1995, pp. 243-58, https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_MourningAndMelancholia.pdf.

Hobbs, Alex. Aging Masculinity in the American Novel. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016.

Kimmel, Michael. Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity. SAGE Publication, 1988.

----------------------Manhood in America: A Cultural History. Free Press, 1990.

McKinley, Maggie. “I wanted to be humanish: manly, a man”: Morality, Shame, and Masculinity in Philip Roth's My Life as a Man”. Phillip Roth Studies, vol.9, no.1, 1980, pp 89-101. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5703/philrothstud.9.1.89.

Nadel, Ira B. Critical Companion to Phillip Roth: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. Cambridge UP, 2011.

Powers, Peter Kerry. “Scribbling For A Life: Masculinity, Doctrine and Style in the Works of John Updike”. Christianity and Literature, vol. 43, no. ¾, pp. 329-346. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/44312323

 Robinson, Sally. Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis. Columbia University Press, 2000.

Traister, Bryce. “Academic Viagra: The Rise of American Masculinity Studies” American

Quarterly, The Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 52, no. 2, 2000, pp. 274-304, JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/30041839.

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023