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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... Greek traditions for celebrating friendship and aestheticizing the male body. In this discussion, I shall address both the coherence and the in- coherence of the late nineteenth-century habit of protecting male desire under the ...
... Greek traditions for celebrating friendship and aestheticizing the male body. In this discussion, I shall address both the coherence and the in- coherence of the late nineteenth-century habit of protecting male desire under the ...
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... Greek art and culture, with the acquisition and display of the Elgin Marbles in the expanded British Museum standing ... (Greek Heritage, 8). Because the Greeks held tremendous cultural authority, which only increased as the century ...
... Greek art and culture, with the acquisition and display of the Elgin Marbles in the expanded British Museum standing ... (Greek Heritage, 8). Because the Greeks held tremendous cultural authority, which only increased as the century ...
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... Greeks something persistently relevant to the modern world of industrializing Britain. Overall, Hellenism, as I am using ... Greek culture, and usually involved elaborate references to the heroic, canonical friendships of such figures as ...
... Greeks something persistently relevant to the modern world of industrializing Britain. Overall, Hellenism, as I am using ... Greek culture, and usually involved elaborate references to the heroic, canonical friendships of such figures as ...
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... Greek tradition: “Greek custom, at least in the early days of Hellas, not only recognized friendships between elder and younger youths as a national institution of great importance, but laid down very distinct laws or rules concerning ...
... Greek tradition: “Greek custom, at least in the early days of Hellas, not only recognized friendships between elder and younger youths as a national institution of great importance, but laid down very distinct laws or rules concerning ...
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... Greek friend- ship), Carpenter insists that comradeship be distinguished from homo- sexuality, even as he proclaims a special social value in homosexuality and an elevated, almost prophetic role for homosexuals in the national arena ...
... Greek friend- ship), Carpenter insists that comradeship be distinguished from homo- sexuality, even as he proclaims a special social value in homosexuality and an elevated, almost prophetic role for homosexuals in the national arena ...
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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