Melancholy Men in Uniform – How Masculinity Becomes a Problem

Joseph Roth in training in the one-year voluntary school of the 21st Rifleman’s Battalion, detail from a photograph, 1916
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Partner: Dokumentationsstelle für neuere österreichische Literatur im Literaturhaus Wien – Documentation Centre for Modern Austrian Literature
Forster, Edgar J.: Unmännliche Männlichkeit. Melancholie – „Geschlecht“ – Verausgabung, Wien/Köln/Weimar 1998
Margetts, John: Die Vorstellung von Männlichkeit in Joseph Roths Radetzkymarsch, in: Stillmark, Alexander (Hrsg.): Joseph Roth. Der Sieg über die Zeit. Londoner Symposium, Stuttgart 1996, 79-93
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Kapitel
- Dreamers Who Turn into Heroes
- ‘Warriors on the Frozen Front’ – The War in the Alps as a Test of Manly Strengths
- The War as a ‘Technoromantic Adventure’
- Forms of Masculinity – Hierarchies, Rivals, Competitors
- Melancholy Men in Uniform – How Masculinity Becomes a Problem
- ‘Black Decay’ – Soldiers as Victims
- ‘The Flight Without End’? – The Warrior’s Homecoming
- ‘A New Race of Men’? – Ideologies of Masculinity in Post-War Austria