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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154966603321

Autore

Gordon Neta <1971->

Titolo

Catching the torch : contemporary Canadian literary responses to World War I / / Neta Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ontario : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , [2014]

Beaconsfield, Quebec : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2014

ISBN

1-55458-985-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

C810.9/3582821

Soggetti

Canadian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Canadian literature - 21st century - History and criticism

World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction Contemporary Canadian First World War Narratives: Remembering Canada's Best Self -- Chapter One The Dead Speak: Considering the Use of Prosopopoeia in Dancock's Dance, Mary's Wedding, and The Deep -- Chapter Two The War and Concepts of Nation in Jack Hodgins's Broken Ground and Frances Itani's Deafening -- Chapter Three Abandoning the Archivist: Commemorating the War Insider and Outsider in the First World War Novels of Alan Cumyn and Jane Urquhart -- Chapter Four Other Canadians: The Representation of Alternative Versions of the Canadian War in Vimy, Unity (1918), Three Day Road, and A Secret Between Us -- Conclusion Representations of the First World War and Wishing.