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Author Gordon, Neta, 1971- author.

Title Catching the torch : contemporary Canadian literary responses to World War I / Neta Gordon
Published Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war
War in literature.
Canadian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
War in literature
War and literature
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781554589852
1554589851
9781554589869
155458986X