Writings of persuasion and dissonance in the Great War : that better whiles may follow worse

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...

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Other Authors: Owen, David, 1962 August 27-, Pividori, Cristina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2016.
Series:DQR studies in literature ; 61.
Subjects:
1900-1999
World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war.
War in literature.
Idealism in literature.
Cruelty in literature.
Memory in literature.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Commonwealth literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Cruelty in literature
English literature
Idealism in literature
Memory in literature
War and literature
War in literature
Englisch
Literatur
Erster Weltkrieg > Motiv
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Reasserting tradition : the solace of the familiar
  • Rudyard Kipling's war, Freemasonry and misogyny / Bill Phillips
  • Conscripting gentle Jane : getting the Austen treatment in the Great War / David Owen
  • Part 2. Quiet desperation : returning home to another war
  • 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
  • Part 3. The Great War in words : telling the untellable
  • 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
  • Part 4. Between happy warrior and bitter pacifist
  • 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
  • Part 5. The subaltern speaks
  • The scramble for home : the First World War in the East African imagination / Esther Pujolras-Noguer
  • Post-war redemption in the Jamaican literary imagination / Richard Smith
  • Part 6. The soldier and the other
  • 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 Martin
  • Part 7. The children's war
  • 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.

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