Neta Gordon

Catching the Torch

Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I

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Produktbeschreibung

Looking at the way sacrifice, service, and the commemoration of war are represented in literary works, this book argues that iterations of a notion of national identity work to counter current anxieties about the stability of the nation-state, in particular about the failure of the ideal of a national ââ,¬Å"character.ââ,¬Â?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781554589807
• ISBN-10: 1554589800
• Artikelnr.: 39049129

Autorenporträt

Neta Gordon is an associate professor at Brock University, where she teaches courses on Canadian literature. She is a co-editor of The Broadview Introduction to Literature (2013) and has written on such authors as Barbara Gowdy, SKY Lee, and Ann-Marie MacDonald.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I
by Neta Gordon
Acknowledgements
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 World War One Novels of Alan Cumyn and Jane Urquhart
Chapter Four: Other Canadians: The Representation of Alternate Versions of
the War in Vimy, Unity (1918), Three Day Road, and A Secret Between Us
Conclusion: Representations of the First World War and Wishing
Notes
Biblography
Index