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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... text's homoerotics, 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 ...
... text's homoerotics, 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 ...
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... texts (and not only literary texts) is that friendship might function as a bridging structure between individuals and institutions. If the intimacy between individuals comes fraught with vulnerability, what friendship appears to offer ...
... texts (and not only literary texts) is that friendship might function as a bridging structure between individuals and institutions. If the intimacy between individuals comes fraught with vulnerability, what friendship appears to offer ...
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... texts, but in many works that betray this history only indirectly.17 Even more of an enabling paradigm for this study, and indeed at the basis of much theoretical work on the subject of male homoerotics, is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's ...
... texts, but in many works that betray this history only indirectly.17 Even more of an enabling paradigm for this study, and indeed at the basis of much theoretical work on the subject of male homoerotics, is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's ...
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... texts, and styles. All three levels present extreme problems of subjectivity, and one should be wary of perpetuating ... text. In the case of modernism, that aura involves a sense that these works reckon in especially unmediated ways ...
... texts, and styles. All three levels present extreme problems of subjectivity, and one should be wary of perpetuating ... text. In the case of modernism, that aura involves a sense that these works reckon in especially unmediated ways ...
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... texts I discuss often construct their versions of lost friendship in ways that rub closely against standard embodiments of modernism. The relationship between canonical modernism and the problem of male intimacy varies considerably – in ...
... texts I discuss often construct their versions of lost friendship in ways that rub closely against standard embodiments of modernism. The relationship between canonical modernism and the problem of male intimacy varies considerably – in ...
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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