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Dubious Glory
Dagmar Novak
其他書名
The Two World Wars and the Canadian Novel
出版
P. Lang
, 2000
主題
History / General
History / Military / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War I
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Canadian
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events
ISBN
0820445495
9780820445496
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aBJaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Dubious Glory: The Two World Wars and the Canadian Novel
combines literature and history to provide a lucid and engaging account of the remarkable transformations that have occurred in Canadian war fiction between 1915 and 1977. Beginning with a detailed focus on World War One fiction,
Dubious Glory
delineates the ways in which Canadian writers use the romance genre both to justify and to glorify the actions of the Canadian solider in combat. Inevitably, the transition from the jingoistic romance of Ralph Connor's
The Sky Pilot in No
Man's Land
to the stark realism of Colin McDougall's
Execution
reflects the profound changes found in Canadian war fiction after World War One. This study culminates in a sustained analysis of Timothy Findley's
The Wars
in which he returns to the Great War, a war that he perceives with irony, an irony tinged, nonetheless, with elements of romance.