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David Mamet and male friendship : buddy plays and buddy films
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ISBN: 9781137305183 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Palgrave Macmillan

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The friend
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ISBN: 0226071804 Year: 2003 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

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German soldier newspapers of the First World War
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ISBN: 9780521192910 0521192919 Year: 2011 Volume: 33 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"The literature on trench journalism is well-established for Britain and France during the First World War, but this book is the first systematic study in English of German soldier newspapers as a representation of daily life and beliefs on the front. Printed by and for soldiers at or near the front line these newspapers were read by millions of 'ordinary soldiers.' They reveal an elaborately defined understanding of comradeship and duty. The war of aggression, the prolonged occupation on both fronts, and the hostility of the local populations were justified through a powerful image of manly comradeship. The belief among many Germans was that they were good gentlemen, fighting a just war and bringing civilization to backward populations. This comparative study includes French, British, Australian, and Canadian newspapers and sheds new light on the views of combatants on both sides of the line"-- "Why do soldiers fight? Why did German soldiers follow orders throughout a seemingly endless war from 1914 to 1918? Did German soldiers really believe that they were waging a 'war of defence' while occupying foreign soil and populations? Were German soldiers atavistic nationalists or bitter pacifists? In other words, were these men perpetrators or victims? What was the postwar legacy of these soldiers' experiences for the dark events to come? Every major study of German soldiers in the First World War (and ninety plus years has produced a vast library) attempts to tackle most, sometimes all, of these questions. This book is no exception. I posit partial answers to all of these queries through my analysis of German soldier newspapers, printed at or near the front, by and for soldiers. I will show that this incredibly popular medium, bought and read by millions, provided 'ordinary soldiers' with a language of manly justification for the aggressive and occupational practices of the German army. The soldier newspapers largely bypassed the popular nationalist discourse, a troublesome category in the still 'young' Germany with its many 'ethnic' divisions and decentralised mass culture, and instead focused upon the ideal of comradeship. This comradeship involved both that among fellow soldiers with its associated concepts of what it meant to be a 'man,' as well as the idea of the German comrade, an honest, good gentleman, as a participant in an occupying, or 'colonizing,' force"--


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Between medieval men : male friendship and desire in early medieval english literature
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ISBN: 9780199558155 0199558159 0191721344 0191567884 9786612104121 1282104128 0199671176 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press


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Ravelstein
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ISBN: 2070759148 9782070759149 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris: Gallimard,

Romantic friendship in Victorian literature
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ISBN: 9780754658696 0754658694 9781315606934 9781317061526 9781317061533 9781138259621 Year: 2007 Volume: *109 Publisher: Aldershot [etc.] Ashgate

American sympathy : men, friendship, and literature in the new nation
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ISBN: 0300083327 9786611722845 1281722847 0300133677 9780300133677 9781281722843 9780300083323 Year: 2001 Publisher: London New Haven Yale University Press

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"A friend in history," Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "looks like some premature soul." And in the history of friendship in early America, Caleb Crain sees the soul of the nation's literature. In a sensitive analysis that weaves together literary criticism and historical narrative, Crain describes the strong friendships between men that supported and inspired some of America's greatest writing--the Gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the novels of Herman Melville. He traces the genealogy of these friendships through a series of stories. A dapper English spy inspires a Quaker boy to run away from home. Three Philadelphia gentlemen conduct a romance through diaries and letters in the 1780's. Flighty teenager Charles Brockden Brown metamorphoses into a horror novelist by treating his friends as his literary guinea pigs. Emerson exchanges glances with a Harvard classmate but sacrifices his crush on the altar of literature--a decision Margaret Fuller invites him to reconsider two decades later. Throughout this engaging book, Crain demonstrates the many ways in which the struggle to commit feelings to paper informed the shape and texture of American literature.

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