“The Land That He Saw Looked Like a Paradise. It Was Not, He Knew”: Suburbia and the Maladjusted American Male in John Cheever’s Bullet Park
This essay explores the issue of masculinity in John Cheever’s somewhat critically overlooked novel, Bullet Park (1969), so as to call attention to the inevitable conflict between the conformist ideologies of the postwar corporate world and the dormant desires of the atomized male suburbanite. By wa...
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| Izdano u: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas, |
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| Glavni autor: | Stilley, Harriet Poppy |
| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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European journal of American studies
2016
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| Online pristup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
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