http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/homosocial-spectrum Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:02:42 -0400 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:02:42 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/29/from-comrades-to-lovers-the-hollow-men-and-the-broken-homosocial-spectrum By Rebecca A. Demarest - In Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Eve Sedgwick proposes the idea that not only women, but also men, can travel along a social spectrum that ranges from friends to lovers. However, she argues that the male homosocial spectrum is broken up by male homophobia in society. This is illustrated in various literature, from works by openly gay authors to stories and poems by writers who are either straight or of a questionable orientation (Sedgwick). One such work is T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” in which the poem’s speaker uses word choice and imagery... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:32 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/29/from-comrades-to-lovers-the-hollow-men-and-the-broken-homosocial-spectrum