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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... almost to stand in for history, to set its rather bare outlines in place of a more historically particularized and thick rendering of human relations. In addition to Beckett's mid - century songs of intimacy 2 Introduction.
... almost to stand in for history, to set its rather bare outlines in place of a more historically particularized and thick rendering of human relations. In addition to Beckett's mid - century songs of intimacy 2 Introduction.
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... male relations. Typically, these disruptions come from a combination of internal contradiction (something in the structure of friendship) and external or historical constraint (most notably under the stress of war), which together set ...
... male relations. Typically, these disruptions come from a combination of internal contradiction (something in the structure of friendship) and external or historical constraint (most notably under the stress of war), which together set ...
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... male homoerotics, is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Between Men: English Literature and Male Homo- social Desire.18 Sedgwick's essential insight involves what she calls a rupture along the continuum of male relations. Positing and exploring ...
... male homoerotics, is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Between Men: English Literature and Male Homo- social Desire.18 Sedgwick's essential insight involves what she calls a rupture along the continuum of male relations. Positing and exploring ...
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... male relations he chronicles become disen- gaged from their ideological underpinnings; this decoupling, in turn, sets in motion a pattern of increasing alienation, self-scrutiny, and narrative breakdown. Conrad's anguish over vanishing ...
... male relations he chronicles become disen- gaged from their ideological underpinnings; this decoupling, in turn, sets in motion a pattern of increasing alienation, self-scrutiny, and narrative breakdown. Conrad's anguish over vanishing ...
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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