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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... stress here is a more general observation: in Waiting for Godot, Beckett stages the simultaneous impoverishment and plenitude of the men's intimacy as a central premise, and this relationship partially embodies the condition of ...
... stress here is a more general observation: in Waiting for Godot, Beckett stages the simultaneous impoverishment and plenitude of the men's intimacy as a central premise, and this relationship partially embodies the condition of ...
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... stress friendship as a theme in his voyage , since the deaths that marred the expedition consti- tuted the central focus of public interest , and since , much to the English explorers ' dismay , they attained the South Pole only after ...
... stress friendship as a theme in his voyage , since the deaths that marred the expedition consti- tuted the central focus of public interest , and since , much to the English explorers ' dismay , they attained the South Pole only after ...
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... stress of war), which together set in motion a cycle of failure or disappoint- ment. The pressure of the physical body, the loss of ideological cover for imperialist myths, the actual experience of intimacy in war, the disruption ...
... stress of war), which together set in motion a cycle of failure or disappoint- ment. The pressure of the physical body, the loss of ideological cover for imperialist myths, the actual experience of intimacy in war, the disruption ...
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... to highly self - conscious artificers between about 1880 and 1940 , who tended to stress the many depletions left in the wake of the Enlightenment's troubled ideals, and to construct for their era what they Introduction 13.
... to highly self - conscious artificers between about 1880 and 1940 , who tended to stress the many depletions left in the wake of the Enlightenment's troubled ideals, and to construct for their era what they Introduction 13.
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... stressed the kind of historical and textual material that I deemed important for the inquiry at hand, and have also given consider- ation to the relative familiarity of the narratives. Thus, if the oft-told story of public-school ...
... stressed the kind of historical and textual material that I deemed important for the inquiry at hand, and have also given consider- ation to the relative familiarity of the narratives. Thus, if the oft-told story of public-school ...
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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