Neta Gordon

Catching the Torch

Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and Jack Hodgins's Broken Ground, the book considers how writers have dealt with the compelling myth that the Canadian nation was born in the trenches of the Great War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781771122382
• ISBN-10: 1771122382
• Artikelnr.: 48968274

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