Writings of persuasion and dissonance in the Great War : : that better whiles may follow worse / / edited by David Owen, Cristina Pividori.
Through chapters dedicated to specific writers and texts, Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War is a collection of essays examining literary responses to the Great War, particularly the confrontation of two distinct languages. One of these reflects nineteenth-century ideals of war a...
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| Superior document: | DQR Studies in Literature, Volume 61 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | DQR studies in literature ;
Volume 61. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (275 pages). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / David Owen and Cristina Pividori
- Introduction / David Owen and Cristina Pividori
- Rudyard Kipling’s War, Freemasonry and Misogyny / Bill Phillips
- Conscripting Gentle Jane: Getting the Austen Treatment in the Great War / David Owen
- No Peace in Silence: The Return of the Traumatised Great War Soldier in Francis Itani’s Tell / Donna Coates
- When the War Was Over: The Return of the War Nurse / Laurie Kaplan
- The Trope of War in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song / Andrew Monnickendam
- Vivid Immediacy and Minimal Reflection in Patrick MacGill’s First World War Trilogy / Brian Dillon
- Impressions from the Front: The Crisis of the Witness in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End / Cristina Pividori
- To a Reader 100 Years Hence: Continuity in Canadian Great War Narratives / Monique Dumontet
- ‘Friend with the Musing Eye’: Persuasion and Dissonance in ‘Call to Arms’ Poems of the First World War / Andrew Palmer
- The Scramble for Home: The First World War in the East African Imagination / Esther Pujolràs-Noguer
- Post-war Redemption in the Jamaican Literary Imagination / Richard Smith
- Non-combatants and Others: H.G. Wells’ Mr Britling Sees It Through / Silvia Mergenthal
- The Loving Soldier: Vindicating Men’s Friendship in Ernest Raymond’s Tell England: A Study in a Generation (1922) and Wilfrid Ewart’s The Way of Revelation (1921) / Sara Martín
- Coming to Terms with the War: War, Propaganda and the German Enemy in British Children’s Novels, 1900 to 1916 / Dorothea Flothow
- What Shall We Tell the Children? Narratives of War in First World War Children’s Literature / Elizabeth A. Galway
- Index / David Owen and Cristina Pividori.