No. 68 (2017): Southern Archive (philological sciences)
Literary theory

MASCULINITY STUDIES IN LITERARY CRITICISM: HISTORY, TERMINOLOGY, PROBLEMS

К. SHMEHA

Published 2017-06-26

Keywords

  • gender studies,
  • discourse of masculinity,
  • identity,
  • poetics,
  • stereotype

Abstract

The article focuses on the formation and conceptualization of gender studies in literary criticism with a focus on the study of masculinity discourse. Analysed the terminology and issues of masculine studies in a broad interdisciplinary context. Discovered topical for the modern Ukrainian literature research strategies among them – the analysis of masculine identities and gender stereotypes represented in a fiction.