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Writings of persuasion and dissonance in the Great War : that better whiles may follow worse /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2016.
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| Colección: | DQR studies in literature ;
61. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.