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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... male intimacy and the representation of modernity characterizes many literary works from an earlier moment, when these frameworks were established and tested: the English modernist period. Thus, Beckett – writing in the mid twentieth ...
... male intimacy and the representation of modernity characterizes many literary works from an earlier moment, when these frameworks were established and tested: the English modernist period. Thus, Beckett – writing in the mid twentieth ...
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... men's intimacy as a central premise, and this relationship partially embodies the condition of modernity that the play so famously purveys.2 In Beckett's plays, as in many earlier works that take male friendship as an emblematic and ...
... men's intimacy as a central premise, and this relationship partially embodies the condition of modernity that the play so famously purveys.2 In Beckett's plays, as in many earlier works that take male friendship as an emblematic and ...
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... intimacy " as a kind of shorthand for the process of fixing and structuring male bonds that prevailed among writers in this period , from late - Victorian aesthetes , to imperial explorers , to modernist artist - prophets . One ...
... intimacy " as a kind of shorthand for the process of fixing and structuring male bonds that prevailed among writers in this period , from late - Victorian aesthetes , to imperial explorers , to modernist artist - prophets . One ...
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... male intimacy makes in the first decades of the twentieth century. If Beckett often characterizes his male partners simultaneously by love and aggressivity, inter-dependence and impoverishment, earnestness and parody, these traits will ...
... male intimacy makes in the first decades of the twentieth century. If Beckett often characterizes his male partners simultaneously by love and aggressivity, inter-dependence and impoverishment, earnestness and parody, these traits will ...
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... intimacy be- comes an impossible goal to achieve, and this not only for the relatively obvious reason we might predict: that such desires represent a way to secure a safe place for homosexuality, which in the late nineteenth century was ...
... intimacy be- comes an impossible goal to achieve, and this not only for the relatively obvious reason we might predict: that such desires represent a way to secure a safe place for homosexuality, which in the late nineteenth century was ...
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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