Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War

Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War

Author: Sarah Cole

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-08-28

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521819237

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Cole examines the rich history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century. She foregrounds such crucial themes as broken friendships, blood brotherhood, and the bereavement of the war poet. Cole argues that these dramas of compelling and often tortured male friendship have generated a particular voice within the literary canon.


Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War

Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War

Author: Sarah Cole

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-08-28

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1139436600

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Sarah 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.


Modernism and Masculinity

Modernism and Masculinity

Author: Natalya Lusty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1107020255

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Modernism and Masculinity explores the varied dimensions and manifestations of masculinity in modernist literature and culture.


Modernism, War, and Violence

Modernism, War, and Violence

Author: Marina MacKay

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1472590082

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The modernist period was an era of world war and violent revolution. Covering a wide range of authors from Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy at the beginning of the period to Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett at the end, this book situates modernism's extraordinary literary achievements in their contexts of historical violence, while surveying the ways in which the relationships between modernism and conflict have been understood by readers and critics over the past fifty years. Ranging from the colonial conflicts of the late 19th century to the world wars and the civil wars in between, and concluding with the institutionalization of modernism in the Cold War, Modernism, War, and Violence provides a starting point for readers who are new to these topics and offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field for a more advanced audience.


Modernism, Sex, and Gender

Modernism, Sex, and Gender

Author: Celia Marshik

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 135002046X

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Modernism, Sex, and Gender is an up-to-date and in-depth review of how theories of gender and sexuality have shaped the way modernism has been read and interpreted from its inception to the present day. The volume explores four key aspects of modernist literature and criticism that have contributed to the new modernist studies: women's contributions to modernism; masculinities; sexuality; and the intersection of gender and sexuality with politics and law. Including brief case studies of such writers as May Sinclair and Radclyffe Hall, this book is a valuable guide for those looking to understand the history of critical thought on gender and sexuality in modernist studies today.


Mark Twain and Male Friendship

Mark Twain and Male Friendship

Author: Peter Messent

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-10-30

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0199889309

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This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H. Rogers.


Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire

Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire

Author: James Campbell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1137550643

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This book reads Oscar Wilde as a queer theorist and Wilfred Owen as his symbolic son. It centers on the concept of 'male procreation', or the generation of new ideas through an erotic but non-physical connection between two men, and it sees Owen as both a product and a continuation of this Wildean tradition.


The Rise and Fall of Comradeship

The Rise and Fall of Comradeship

Author: Thomas Kühne

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1316841839

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This is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust. Using individual soldiers' diaries, personal letters and memoirs, Kühne reveals the ways in which soldiers' longing for community, and the practice of male bonding and togetherness, sustained the Third Reich's pursuit of war and genocide. Comradeship fuelled the soldiers' fighting morale. It also propelled these soldiers forward into war crimes and acts of mass murders. Yet, by practising comradeship, the soldiers could maintain the myth that they were morally sacrosanct. Post-1945, the notion of kameradschaft as the epitome of humane and egalitarian solidarity allowed Hitler's soldiers to join the euphoria for peace and democracy in the Federal Republic, finally shaping popular memories of the war through the end of the twentieth century.


Teaching Representations of the First World War

Teaching Representations of the First World War

Author: Debra Rae Cohen

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2017-07-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 160329306X

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The First World War saw staggering loss of life and was a catalyst for many political and social changes. It was also shaped by the media and art forms that expressed it: film, photography, poetry, memoir, posters, advertisements, and music. This volume's scope shows that today's instructors contend with many different issues in teaching the First World War in a variety of classroom settings. Among these issues are the war's relation to modernism; global reach in the Middle East and South Asia; influence on psychiatry, pacifism, and consumer culture; and effect on public health and the 1918 influenza pandemic.