%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°In Reality Every Reader Is, While He Is Reading, the Reader of His Own Self¡±: Reconsidering the Importance of Narrative and Savoir Litt¨¦raire for Masculinity Studies
%A Stefan Horlacher
%J Men and Masculinities
%@ 1552-6828
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1097184X18805554
%X Given the strong emphasis on plurality, which is so characteristic of current masculinity studies, the relationship between masculinity as a concept and its plural forms has to be rethought. If we conceive of masculinity as having a largely discursive and narrative structure and accept that narrative is an ontological condition of social life which exemplarily manifests itself in literature and the arts, it is precisely here that a plethora of narratives of masculinity becomes ¡®visible¡¯, with the performative function of narrative allowing for a variety of new masculine gender identities and subject positions that only become available through their conception in literature/the arts
%K Masculine Gender Identity
%K Narrative
%K Literature
%K Co-construction
%K Performativity
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1097184X18805554