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‘Music horrible and unreal’: music, its language, and First World War fiction (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2014, August). ‘Music horrible and unreal’: music, its language, and First World War fiction. Paper presented at The Music of War: 1914–1918, British Library, London

Narratives about the First World War often claimed that the physical experience of warfare was incommunicable to those who had not fought. Indeed, in the decade after the war much paper and ink was devoted to this aporia. In this paper I argue that... Read More about ‘Music horrible and unreal’: music, its language, and First World War fiction.

Aldington, a disillusioned poet (2014)
Other
Frayn, A. (2014). Aldington, a disillusioned poet

Programme article for 'The War', Chekhov International Theatre Festival / SounDrama Studio, Edinburgh International Festival, 2014.

Cartographies of the Great War: Mapping Post-War Fiction (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2014, July). Cartographies of the Great War: Mapping Post-War Fiction. Paper presented at Alternate Spaces of the Great War, Plymouth University

Invited talk to the AHRC-funded network Alternate Spaces of the Great War.

This paper engages with the spaces of the Great War, particularly the Western Front, as spaces of modernity. The starting point is a quotation from Richard Aldington’s Dea... Read More about Cartographies of the Great War: Mapping Post-War Fiction.

Enchantment and Disenchantment in Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2013, March). Enchantment and Disenchantment in Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands. Paper presented at Approaching War: Europe, Newcastle University

Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands (1903) negotiates early twentieth century fears of war in fiction. The danger derives from the potential to traverse and shift national boundaries, particularly by naval warfare. The novel was written as a... Read More about Enchantment and Disenchantment in Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands.

Motherfuckers: Gender, Sexuality and Otherness in First World War Fiction (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2012, October). Motherfuckers: Gender, Sexuality and Otherness in First World War Fiction. Paper presented at Modernism and Spectacle: Modernist Studies Association Conference, Las Vegas, NV

This paper argues that the visceral reactions, particularly of non-combatants, to the deaths of immediate relations and lovers, and the profound emotions evinced, can be understood through the lens of necrophilia. Necrophilia, building on the work o... Read More about Motherfuckers: Gender, Sexuality and Otherness in First World War Fiction.

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.

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 (201-216). Rodopi

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..