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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... writers of an earlier generation, as they confronted their own historical and national situations. What this book will undertake is to make cultural and literary sense 1 Introduction ARGUMENT: THE ORGANIZATION OF INTIMACY.
... writers of an earlier generation, as they confronted their own historical and national situations. What this book will undertake is to make cultural and literary sense 1 Introduction ARGUMENT: THE ORGANIZATION OF INTIMACY.
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... Writers in this period emphasized both the value and the fragility of male ties, developing images of men and masculinity that were at once haunting, beautiful, troubling, desperate, and self-dramatizing. WhenWaiting for Godot allies ...
... Writers in this period emphasized both the value and the fragility of male ties, developing images of men and masculinity that were at once haunting, beautiful, troubling, desperate, and self-dramatizing. WhenWaiting for Godot allies ...
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... writers in this period , from late - Victorian aesthetes , to imperial explorers , to modernist artist - prophets . One proposition that recurs in many texts ( and not only literary texts ) is that friendship might function as a ...
... writers in this period , from late - Victorian aesthetes , to imperial explorers , to modernist artist - prophets . One proposition that recurs in many texts ( and not only literary texts ) is that friendship might function as a ...
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... writers.6 The history of male intimacy is never incidental to the dynamics I will be describing; on the contrary, what makes the tension surround- ing friendship at the turn of the century so vivid is precisely the fact that male bonds ...
... writers.6 The history of male intimacy is never incidental to the dynamics I will be describing; on the contrary, what makes the tension surround- ing friendship at the turn of the century so vivid is precisely the fact that male bonds ...
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... writers adopted the war as their own per- ceptual and epistemological experience.11 If it was not a straightforward catalyst for one kind of change or development, the war was an incalcu- lably important event in the cultural and ...
... writers adopted the war as their own per- ceptual and epistemological experience.11 If it was not a straightforward catalyst for one kind of change or development, the war was an incalcu- lably important event in the cultural and ...
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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