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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... language , a history that imbues the often shaky relation between man and man with the sanc- tity of larger , more powerful and sustainable institutions . While writers of the modernist period are often viewed as viscerally hostile to ...
... language , a history that imbues the often shaky relation between man and man with the sanc- tity of larger , more powerful and sustainable institutions . While writers of the modernist period are often viewed as viscerally hostile to ...
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... language to account for them. The First World War represents the pivot of my study, as it has often been perceived by scholars to divide European cultural history into any number of “before and after” sequences. It is here, in the ...
... language to account for them. The First World War represents the pivot of my study, as it has often been perceived by scholars to divide European cultural history into any number of “before and after” sequences. It is here, in the ...
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... language of friendship is exposed or rejected, and strategies of empowerment often seem far distant. To argue, as I shall, that something important for literature arises out of this cycle of disappointment – that resonant images and ...
... language of friendship is exposed or rejected, and strategies of empowerment often seem far distant. To argue, as I shall, that something important for literature arises out of this cycle of disappointment – that resonant images and ...
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... language to fill that void. In particular, I will be concerned with a familiar male voice, character- ized not only by its association with irony and disenchantment, but also by its proclamations of solitary struggle and visionary power ...
... language to fill that void. In particular, I will be concerned with a familiar male voice, character- ized not only by its association with irony and disenchantment, but also by its proclamations of solitary struggle and visionary power ...
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... language . Male intimacy ultimately becomes the vehicle not for communal strength , but for individual isolation and bereavement , and the embittered voice that rises from the trenches is specifically rendered as the voice of the ...
... language . Male intimacy ultimately becomes the vehicle not for communal strength , but for individual isolation and bereavement , and the embittered voice that rises from the trenches is specifically rendered as the voice of the ...
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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