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Entrenched Personalities: World War I, Modernism, and Perceptions of Sexual Identity

Groff, Tyler Robert
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4651-6910
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375987629

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2013, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
This thesis considers how modernists used WWI as a platform to critique sexual norms and explore sexual diversity. Though the war was characterized by heteronormative rhetoric and policies that encouraged strict gender division, many writers of the era suggest that such measures only counterintuitively highlighted dissident sexual positionalities and encouraged a broad range of war workers and citizens, intellectuals and non-intellectuals alike, to contemplate complex notions of sexual identity. Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Djuna Barnes' Nightwood, and David Jones' In Parenthesis are considered in respective chapters. Though these works largely contrast in terms of genre, theme, and authorship, each questions war propaganda and sexological discourse that attempted to essentialize gender and/or pathologize homosexuality. In addition, each work implies that WWI brought questions of sexual identity to the minds of soldiers and war workers, even those far removed from the discursive spaces of sexology and psychology.
Madelyn Detloff, PhD (Committee Chair)
Erin Edwards, PhD (Committee Member)
Mary Jean Corbett, PhD (Committee Member)
67 p.
Literature
World War I; WWI; Gertrude Stein; Djuna Barnes; David Jones; Nightwood; The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas; In Parenthesis; Sexuality; Gender; Sexology;

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  • Groff, T. R. (2013). Entrenched Personalities: World War I, Modernism, and Perceptions of Sexual Identity [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375987629

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Groff, Tyler. Entrenched Personalities: World War I, Modernism, and Perceptions of Sexual Identity. 2013. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375987629.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Groff, Tyler. "Entrenched Personalities: World War I, Modernism, and Perceptions of Sexual Identity." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375987629

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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