The Resurrection of Chivalry in Tom Wolfe's Back to Blood
In his final novel, Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe delivers a warning and an antidote. The warning concerns the widespread disbelief in God and the renunciation of values. In this vacuum flows nihilism, hedonism, and zero-sum power dynamics. Wolfe dramatizes this sociological prognosis in Back to Blood, w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2024
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2024, Volume: 73, Issue: 2, Pages: 277-298 |
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Masculinity
B Ethics B Tom Wolfe B Chivalry B Back to Blood |
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| Summary: | In his final novel, Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe delivers a warning and an antidote. The warning concerns the widespread disbelief in God and the renunciation of values. In this vacuum flows nihilism, hedonism, and zero-sum power dynamics. Wolfe dramatizes this sociological prognosis in Back to Blood, where his hero, Nestor Camacho, becomes the sole light bearer of traditional morality, namely chivalry. After obtaining a definition of chivalry using historical sources and modern scholars, this paper will show how Tom Wolfe in Back to Blood resurrects the chivalric ideal and endorses it as a solution to our present ethical crisis. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2024.a930544 |