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Death So Noble
Jonathan Franklin William Vance
其他書名
Memory, Meaning, and the First World War
出版
UBC Press
, 1997
主題
History / Canada / General
History / Military / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War I
History / Military / Canada
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN
0774806001
9780774806008
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3wABF2KyvXEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Death So Noble takes an unorthodox look at the Canadian war experience. It views the Great War as a cultural and philosophical force rather than as a political and military event. Thematically organized into such subjects as the symbolism of the soldier, the implications of war memory for Canadian nationalism, and the idea of a just war, the book draws on memoirs, war memorials, newspaper reports, fiction, popular songs, film, plays, and many other sources. In each case Vance distinguishes between the objective realities of the war and the way that contemporaries remembered it. Jonathan Vance emphasizes the persistence of traditional Victorian values in Canada up to 1939 and the resistance of the old order to changes wrought by the First World War. In this way his conclusions differ from those of earlier writers such as Paul Fussell, Samuel Hynes, and Modris Eksteins, who stressed the forces of innovation unleashed by the war.