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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... 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. Sarah Cole is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and ...
... 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. Sarah Cole is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and ...
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... poets : intimacy , authority , alienation Post - war articulations : lost friends and the lost generation " The violence of the nightmare ” : D. H. Lawrence and the aftermath of war Notes Index Bodies of men : the landscape of post ...
... poets : intimacy , authority , alienation Post - war articulations : lost friends and the lost generation " The violence of the nightmare ” : D. H. Lawrence and the aftermath of war Notes Index Bodies of men : the landscape of post ...
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... poets) tend to have a slightly equivocal status in modernism – canonical, yet a little off center, in the sense that their texts tend not to perform the kinds of radical experimentation often valorized in and as modernism. Yet this ...
... poets) tend to have a slightly equivocal status in modernism – canonical, yet a little off center, in the sense that their texts tend not to perform the kinds of radical experimentation often valorized in and as modernism. Yet this ...
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... poet's 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 ...
... poet's 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 ...
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... poet, and open homosexual, Carpenter championed a vision of male intimacy that welcomed homoerotic desire, patterned the idealized relations of national identity on a friendship model, and seamlessly united individual sexuality with ...
... poet, and open homosexual, Carpenter championed a vision of male intimacy that welcomed homoerotic desire, patterned the idealized relations of national identity on a friendship model, and seamlessly united individual sexuality with ...
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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