1st Edition
A Humanities Pedagogy Approach to Modern Masculinity
Introduction: A Humanities Response to the Crisis of Modern Masculinity
Nahum N. Welang
Part I
Classroom Practices
1. Vulnerable Masculinities: Critical Resources for Pedagogy and Cultural Analysis
Gemma López Sánchez, Teresa Requena-Pelegrí and Cristina Arbués Caballé
2. No Country for Young Men? Developing a Literary Engagement Pedagogy to Address the Crisis of Modern Masculinity in Classrooms
Nahum N. Welang
3. Liquid Masculinity in Popular Film and TV
Helga Klungland
4. We Are Still Fighting The Chocolate War: How Robert Cormier’s Vision of Male Adolescence Addresses Urgent Concerns
Jessica Allen Hanssen
5. Close Reading Crisis: Cultivating Empathy for Contemporary Masculinities in the Classroom
Peter Paul Ferry
Part II
Critical Resources
6. Reconstructing Masculinity Through Affect in the Film Adaptation of Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Dušan Ivanović
7. Beyond Kratos: Male Identity as Constraint and Privilege in the Mechanics of Video Games
Johannes Valentin Korff
8. “Without Memory, or Fear”: What Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar Can Teach Young Men in the 21st Century About Toxic Masculinity
Toni R. Juncosa
9. Normal Boys and Normal People: Using the Bildungsroman to Condemn the Manosphere
Emily Hoffman
10. Comics and Alternative Masculinities Beyond the Macho: Representing Queer Identities in Graphic Novels
Antonio Raimondo Di Grigoli and Dalila Forni
Coda/Afterword
Asbjørn Grønstad and Lene Johannessen
Biography
Nahum N. Welang is an Associate Professor of English Literature/Culture and Didactics at Nord University, Norway.
