Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World WarSarah Cole examines the rich literary and cultural history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century. Cole approaches this complex and neglected topic from many perspectives - as a reflection of the exceptional social power wielded by the institutions that housed and structured male bonds; as a matter of closeted and thwarted homoerotics; as part of the story of the First World War. Cole shows that the terrain of masculine fellowship provides an important context for understanding key literary features of the modernist period. She foregrounds such crucial themes as the over-determined relations between imperial wanderers in Conrad's tales, the broken friendships that permeate Forster's fictions, Lawrence's desperate urge to make culture out of blood brotherhood and the intense bereavement of the war poet. Cole argues that these dramas of compelling and often tortured male friendship have helped to define a particular spirit and voice within the literary canon. |
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... Conrad's tales, the broken friendships that permeate Forster's fictions, Lawrence's desperate urge to make culture out of blood brotherhood, and the intense bereavement of the war poet. Cole argues that these dramas of compelling and ...
... Conrad's tales, the broken friendships that permeate Forster's fictions, Lawrence's desperate urge to make culture out of blood brotherhood, and the intense bereavement of the war poet. Cole argues that these dramas of compelling and ...
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... Conrad and Ford's Romance 3 " My killed friends are with me where I go " : friendship and comradeship at war 4 War discourse : friendship and comradeship The major war poets : intimacy , authority , alienation Post - war articulations ...
... Conrad and Ford's Romance 3 " My killed friends are with me where I go " : friendship and comradeship at war 4 War discourse : friendship and comradeship The major war poets : intimacy , authority , alienation Post - war articulations ...
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... and characters come to speak with a privileged voice, often reflecting a spirit of irony presumed to be shared by the reader (Conrad's Marlow would be Introduction 11 DEFINITIONS AND CHOICES: MODERNISM, MODERNITY, LITERARY AUTHORITY.
... and characters come to speak with a privileged voice, often reflecting a spirit of irony presumed to be shared by the reader (Conrad's Marlow would be Introduction 11 DEFINITIONS AND CHOICES: MODERNISM, MODERNITY, LITERARY AUTHORITY.
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... Conrad, the major writers in this study (Forster, Lawrence, the war poets) tend to have a slightly equivocal status in modernism – canonical, yet a little off center, in the sense that their texts tend not to perform the kinds of ...
... Conrad, the major writers in this study (Forster, Lawrence, the war poets) tend to have a slightly equivocal status in modernism – canonical, yet a little off center, in the sense that their texts tend not to perform the kinds of ...
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... Conrad; for the war discussion, much of my analysis of non-canonical writers comes from unpublished letters, memoirs, and fiction, or from lesser-known literary works about the war; and when I discuss the post-war period, I shall pay ...
... Conrad; for the war discussion, much of my analysis of non-canonical writers comes from unpublished letters, memoirs, and fiction, or from lesser-known literary works about the war; and when I discuss the post-war period, I shall pay ...
Contents
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CHAPTER 2 Conradian alienation and imperial intimacy | 92 |
friendship and comradeship at war | 138 |
DHLawrence and the aftermath of war | 185 |
Notes | 252 |
Index | 292 |
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