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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... critics, is to assume that it is a private, voluntary relation, governed by personal sentiment and easy communion. It is not. Like any complex social relationship, friendship has its own conventions and institutional affinities (schools ...
... critics, is to assume that it is a private, voluntary relation, governed by personal sentiment and easy communion. It is not. Like any complex social relationship, friendship has its own conventions and institutional affinities (schools ...
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... Critics have attributed the formal and thematic shape of such exemplary texts as The Waste Land and To the Lighthouse in part to the war's myriad effects on the high modernists of the 1920s, and a whole host of familiar features of ...
... Critics have attributed the formal and thematic shape of such exemplary texts as The Waste Land and To the Lighthouse in part to the war's myriad effects on the high modernists of the 1920s, and a whole host of familiar features of ...
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... critics have turned to the idea of abjection as a way to theorize the simultaneous release and appropriation of power that accrues to many gestures of masculine self-annihilation.19 While such a dynamic will often be visible, in the ...
... critics have turned to the idea of abjection as a way to theorize the simultaneous release and appropriation of power that accrues to many gestures of masculine self-annihilation.19 While such a dynamic will often be visible, in the ...
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... critics were quite taken with the idea of modernity as an apt expression of their historical situation, a way of naming what they viewed as the most distinctive and compelling features of the period, and hence deliberate images of ...
... critics were quite taken with the idea of modernity as an apt expression of their historical situation, a way of naming what they viewed as the most distinctive and compelling features of the period, and hence deliberate images of ...
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... critics and others on grounds of exclusivity and self-perpetuation, it is not meant to exhaust the period's literary accomplishment, or to circumscribe our sense of what is important or representative in the literature of these years ...
... critics and others on grounds of exclusivity and self-perpetuation, it is not meant to exhaust the period's literary accomplishment, or to circumscribe our sense of what is important or representative in the literature of these years ...
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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