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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... perhaps my oldest friend, who has included me in her wonderful family of Dean Amundson, Abigail Cole, and Talia Cole; and Adam Cole, with whom I have shared so many moments of intellectual companionship. Finally, I want to thank my ...
... perhaps my oldest friend, who has included me in her wonderful family of Dean Amundson, Abigail Cole, and Talia Cole; and Adam Cole, with whom I have shared so many moments of intellectual companionship. Finally, I want to thank my ...
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... Perhaps the biggest mistake one can make in conceptualizing friendship , unfortunately repeated by many critics , is to assume that it is a private , voluntary relation , governed by personal sentiment and easy communion . It is not ...
... Perhaps the biggest mistake one can make in conceptualizing friendship , unfortunately repeated by many critics , is to assume that it is a private , voluntary relation , governed by personal sentiment and easy communion . It is not ...
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... 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.
... 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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Sarah Cole. as a brotherhood (along the lines, perhaps, of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass7), or of the university circle as a forum for protecting marginalized sexual identities, or of military service as a rewarding experience of com ...
Sarah Cole. as a brotherhood (along the lines, perhaps, of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass7), or of the university circle as a forum for protecting marginalized sexual identities, or of military service as a rewarding experience of com ...
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... perhaps to the breaking point – an already loaded cultured signifier. The war has long been assigned pride of place in the history of mod- ernism. Critics have attributed the formal and thematic shape of such exemplary texts as The ...
... perhaps to the breaking point – an already loaded cultured signifier. The war has long been assigned pride of place in the history of mod- ernism. Critics have attributed the formal and thematic shape of such exemplary texts as 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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