Review of: Anna Katharina Knaup: Der Männerroman. Ein neues Genre der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2015.

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  • Sandra Folie Universität Wien, Abteilung für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Wien

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/1203

Keywords:

Männerroman, Männerliteratur, Neue Männlichkeit, Gender, Geschlecht

Abstract

Anna Katharina Knaup presents here a first configuration of genre for the German-language ‘Männerroman’, thus contributing to fundamental research in the field of genre theory. At least as concerns contemporary light fiction, she questions the tradition whereby male authorship is considered the ‘norm’, so that - unlike ‘women’s writing’ - it need not be labeled specifically. Her comparative analysis convinces in terms of literary criticism; from a gender theory perspective, though, it would have been desirable had she used language and gender concepts in a more conscious way.

Author Biography

Sandra Folie, Universität Wien, Abteilung für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Wien

DOC-Stipendiatin der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften an der Abteilung für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Wien
‘Being different is totally OK ;-)’, by Riza Nugraha

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Published

2016-09-02

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 3 (2016)

Section

Rezensionen

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Copyright (c) 2016 Sandra Folie

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