From Big Sticks to Talking Sticks
Family, Work, and Masculinity in Stephen King's The Shining
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2387448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Davenport (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 308-329 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Men and Masculinities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1097-184X • E-ISSN: 1552-6828 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1097184x00002003004 |
| OpenAlex | W2117310716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
The article reads Stephen King's The Shining as a story of anxiety about family, work, and masculinity in twentieth-century America. It is Jack Torrance's emotional life as a man and the sticks, big and talking, that he can choose from to express in life the answers-in 1977, during the heyday of post-WWII feminism and the birth of the men's movement-to the basic questions: how and where to be a man? The kinds of work available to Jack-caregiver to his son, caretaker of the hotel, husband-provider, teacher, and the always-suspect occupation of imaginative writer-direct his life as a man and organize the overarching narrative of wounded and wounding masculinity at the heart of this haunted-house story
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Feminism · Literature · Masculinity · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Suspect · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |