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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... represented in both playful and serious terms; to parallels with other relationship models (husband/wife; mentor/student; parent/child; master/slave); to the doubling of doublings engendered by the arrival of Lucky and Pozzo; and to the ...
... represented in both playful and serious terms; to parallels with other relationship models (husband/wife; mentor/student; parent/child; master/slave); to the doubling of doublings engendered by the arrival of Lucky and Pozzo; and to the ...
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... represents something like a last stop on the journey male intimacy makes in the first decades of the twentieth ... representing one of its greatest institutional manifestations. Thomas Carlyle's idealization of monastic community in Past ...
... represents something like a last stop on the journey male intimacy makes in the first decades of the twentieth ... representing one of its greatest institutional manifestations. Thomas Carlyle's idealization of monastic community in Past ...
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... represent a way to secure a safe place for homosexuality, which in the late nineteenth century was increasingly ... represents the pivot of my study, as it has often been perceived by scholars to divide European cultural history ...
... represent a way to secure a safe place for homosexuality, which in the late nineteenth century was increasingly ... represents the pivot of my study, as it has often been perceived by scholars to divide European cultural history ...
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... represented by the author him/herself, often as a spokesman for some kind of authentic experience; and the way ... represents one such area where un-ironized values tend to cluster in modernist works. — When I speak of " modernity ...
... represented by the author him/herself, often as a spokesman for some kind of authentic experience; and the way ... represents one such area where un-ironized values tend to cluster in modernist works. — When I speak of " modernity ...
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... represents an international and interdisciplinary phenomenon , encompassing not only literature , but visual arts , performance , music , and architecture , and the term generally represents a habit of mind as much as a chronological or ...
... represents an international and interdisciplinary phenomenon , encompassing not only literature , but visual arts , performance , music , and architecture , and the term generally represents a habit of mind as much as a chronological or ...
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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