All Outputs (68)

Pacifism as Disenchantment? Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2012, May). Pacifism as Disenchantment? Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others. Paper presented at Narratives of Peace, 1854–1914, University of Sheffield

This paper argues that it is pertinent to see narratives of pacifism during the First World War in the context of later disenchanted writings, and that these often share linguistic and thematic concerns. Works which dared to express discontent with... Read More about Pacifism as Disenchantment? Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others.

“The Ladybird,” Disenchantment and the First World War (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2012, April). “The Ladybird,” Disenchantment and the First World War. Paper presented at D.H. Lawrence, his Contemporaries, and the Great War, Arras, France

This paper sees D.H. Lawrence’s The Ladybird (1923) as part of a developing discourse of disenchantment which followed the First World War. Literary critics and historians tend to see disenchantment, or disillusionment, as a response to unspecified... Read More about “The Ladybird,” Disenchantment and the First World War.

Armistice Day and a mythologised, distant version of the First World War. (2011)
Newspaper / Magazine
Frayn, A. (2011). Armistice Day and a mythologised, distant version of the First World War.

“Literary forms do become exhausted, clapped out, as well”: Late Modernism and Late Style (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2011, May). “Literary forms do become exhausted, clapped out, as well”: Late Modernism and Late Style. Presented at Lateness and the Modern, University of Manchester

This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature. (2008)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2008). This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature. In A. Gąsiorek, & D. Moore (Eds.), Ford Madox Ford: Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations, 201

This chapter argues that the novels of Ford's Parade's End tetralogy occupy a significant place in the development of "disenchanted" fiction about the First World War. The values of Ernest Raymond's patriotic Tell England are contrasted with those of... Read More about This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature..

“A million murders egged on”: Richard Aldington and the position of Death of a Hero in the fictional response to the First World War (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2008). “A million murders egged on”: Richard Aldington and the position of Death of a Hero in the fictional response to the First World War. In Locations and Dislocations: Proceedings of the Fourth International Richard Aldington Conferenc

A Thoroughly Manly Fellow: Masculinity and Manliness in Richard Aldington's Early Fiction (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2005). A Thoroughly Manly Fellow: Masculinity and Manliness in Richard Aldington's Early Fiction. In D. Kempton, & H. R. Stoneback (Eds.), New Places: proceedings of the Third International Richard Aldington Conferences (63-70)

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“Not Yet Diagnosed Nervous”: Richard Aldington, Psychology, and War (2002)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2002). “Not Yet Diagnosed Nervous”: Richard Aldington, Psychology, and War. Manuscript: Graduate Journal in English, 24-40