Ragged Dicks: Masculinity, Steel, and the Rhetoric of the Self-Made Man

by James V. Catano

Portraits of self-made men are rife in Western culture, as James V. Catano observes. Positive and negative, admittedly fictional and ostensibly factual, these portraits endure because the general rhetorical practice embodied in the myth of the self-made man enacts both the need and the very means for making oneself masculine: verbal power and prowess. The myth of the self-made man, in short, is part of ongoing rhetorical practices that constitute...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809323958
• ISBN13: 9780809323951
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"