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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... idea that preoccupied writers of an earlier generation, as they confronted their own historical and national situations. What this book will undertake is to make cultural and literary sense 1 Introduction ARGUMENT: THE ORGANIZATION OF ...
... idea that preoccupied writers of an earlier generation, as they confronted their own historical and national situations. What this book will undertake is to make cultural and literary sense 1 Introduction ARGUMENT: THE ORGANIZATION OF ...
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... would be possible between institutions and personal bonds – that, for instance, I would discover a form of productive literary power in the idea of the nation as a brotherhood (along the lines, perhaps, of Walt Whitman's Introduction 5.
... would be possible between institutions and personal bonds – that, for instance, I would discover a form of productive literary power in the idea of the nation as a brotherhood (along the lines, perhaps, of Walt Whitman's Introduction 5.
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... idea (and ideal) of male friendship, and it is here, too, that the story of lost friendship will be most compellingly imagined as a site for the heightened and unmediated experience of modernity. As Cherry's allusions to the war as a ...
... idea (and ideal) of male friendship, and it is here, too, that the story of lost friendship will be most compellingly imagined as a site for the heightened and unmediated experience of modernity. As Cherry's allusions to the war as a ...
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... 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 works I am considering, 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 works I am considering, the ...
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... idea of authenticity altogether? Despite these se- rious questions, it seems important to think about the way writers of the modernist period simultaneously offered a challenge to a certain kind of conventional literary authority ...
... idea of authenticity altogether? Despite these se- rious questions, it seems important to think about the way writers of the modernist period simultaneously offered a challenge to a certain kind of conventional literary authority ...
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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