All Outputs (33)

‘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.

War, the City and Disenchanted Modernity: Richard Aldington’s Early Imagist Poetry (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2014, August). War, the City and Disenchanted Modernity: Richard Aldington’s Early Imagist Poetry. Paper presented at British Poetry of the First World War, Wadham College, Oxford

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.

“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

“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. (2006, July). “A million murders egged on”: Richard Aldington and the position of Death of a Hero in the fictional response to the First World War. Presented at Fourth International Richard Aldington Conference, Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France

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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Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2024, May). Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies. Paper presented at Emerging Perspectives in H.D.’s Hellenic Modernity and the Future of New Modernist Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece [online]

Contribution to roundtable on ‘H.D. and Richard Aldington: “It was you who taught me to love those things…”.’ Other participants: Prof Elizabeth Vandiver (Whitman College, USA), Dr Caroline Zilboorg (Clare Hall, Cambridge) Conference: Emerging Per... Read More about Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies.

The humanities and Higher Education in the UK and beyond: lineages and legacies
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2024, February). The humanities and Higher Education in the UK and beyond: lineages and legacies. Presented at The Humanities Today: Global and Social Responsibilities, IIS University, Jaipur, India

I argue for the need to maintain democratic and egalitarian principles of access to higher education in the face of the many challenges of the present day. I think about this in terms of both the broadening of literary canons and the development of... Read More about The humanities and Higher Education in the UK and beyond: lineages and legacies.

Norman Nicholson and rural wartime
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2024, May). Norman Nicholson and rural wartime. Presented at Cultural Landscapes, University of Cumbria, Ambleside

A different version of this paper is published as ‘Rural modernity and wartime in Norman Nicholson’s poetry.’ Modernist Cultures. See corresponding entry.