In “the black murmuring crowd”: Aldington’s Imagist London
(2012)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2012). In “the black murmuring crowd”: Aldington’s Imagist London. In D. Kempton, & H. R. Stoneback (Eds.), Aldington, Pound, and the Imagists at Brunnenburg (pp. 27-35). Greagau Press.
All Outputs (4)
Motherfuckers: Gender, Sexuality and Otherness in First World War Fiction (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2012, October 18-21). Motherfuckers: Gender, Sexuality and Otherness in First World War Fiction [Paper presentation]. 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 25-26). Pacifism as Disenchantment? Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others [Paper presentation]. 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 12-14). “The Ladybird,” Disenchantment and the First World War [Paper presentation]. 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.