Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War : That Better Whiles May Follow Worse.
Owen, David.
Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War : That Better Whiles May Follow Worse. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (275 pages) - DQR Studies in Literature Series ; v.61 . - DQR Studies in Literature Series .
Intro -- Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Authors -- Introduction -- PART 1: Reasserting Tradition: The Solace of the Familiar -- 1: Rudyard Kipling's War, Freemasonry and Misogyny -- 2: Conscripting Gentle Jane: Getting the Austen Treatment in the Great War -- PART 2: Quiet Desperation: Returning Home to Another War -- 3: No Peace in Silence: The Return of the Traumatised Great War Soldier in Francis Itani's Tell -- 4: When the War Was Over: The Return of the War Nurse -- PART 3: The Great War in Words: Telling the Untellable -- 5: The Trope of War in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song -- 6: Vivid Immediacy and Minimal Reflection in Patrick MacGill's First World War Trilogy -- 7: Impressions from the Front: The Crisis of the Witness in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End -- PART 4: Between Happy Warrior and Bitter Pacifist -- 8: To a Reader 100 Years Hence: Continuity in Canadian Great War Narratives -- 9: 'Friend with the Musing Eye': Persuasion and Dissonance in 'Call to Arms' Poems of the First World War -- PART 5: The Subaltern Speaks -- 10: The Scramble for Home: The First World War in the East African Imagination -- 11: Post-war Redemption in the Jamaican Literary Imagination -- PART 6: The Soldier and the Other -- 12: Non-combatants and Others: H.G. Wells' Mr Britling Sees It Through -- 13: 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) -- PART 7: The Children's War -- 14: Coming to Terms with the War: War, Propaganda and the German Enemy in British Children's Novels, 1900 to 1916 -- 15: What Shall We Tell the Children? Narratives of War in First World War Children's Literature -- Index.
Focussing on specific writers and texts, Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War examines literary responses to the Great War. It underscores the futility of imposing a single perspective on such response and also enquires into the uncertainties of memory.
9789004314924
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.
Electronic books.
PR478.W65 .W758 2016
820.9/358
Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War : That Better Whiles May Follow Worse. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (275 pages) - DQR Studies in Literature Series ; v.61 . - DQR Studies in Literature Series .
Intro -- Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Authors -- Introduction -- PART 1: Reasserting Tradition: The Solace of the Familiar -- 1: Rudyard Kipling's War, Freemasonry and Misogyny -- 2: Conscripting Gentle Jane: Getting the Austen Treatment in the Great War -- PART 2: Quiet Desperation: Returning Home to Another War -- 3: No Peace in Silence: The Return of the Traumatised Great War Soldier in Francis Itani's Tell -- 4: When the War Was Over: The Return of the War Nurse -- PART 3: The Great War in Words: Telling the Untellable -- 5: The Trope of War in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song -- 6: Vivid Immediacy and Minimal Reflection in Patrick MacGill's First World War Trilogy -- 7: Impressions from the Front: The Crisis of the Witness in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End -- PART 4: Between Happy Warrior and Bitter Pacifist -- 8: To a Reader 100 Years Hence: Continuity in Canadian Great War Narratives -- 9: 'Friend with the Musing Eye': Persuasion and Dissonance in 'Call to Arms' Poems of the First World War -- PART 5: The Subaltern Speaks -- 10: The Scramble for Home: The First World War in the East African Imagination -- 11: Post-war Redemption in the Jamaican Literary Imagination -- PART 6: The Soldier and the Other -- 12: Non-combatants and Others: H.G. Wells' Mr Britling Sees It Through -- 13: 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) -- PART 7: The Children's War -- 14: Coming to Terms with the War: War, Propaganda and the German Enemy in British Children's Novels, 1900 to 1916 -- 15: What Shall We Tell the Children? Narratives of War in First World War Children's Literature -- Index.
Focussing on specific writers and texts, Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War examines literary responses to the Great War. It underscores the futility of imposing a single perspective on such response and also enquires into the uncertainties of memory.
9789004314924
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.
Electronic books.
PR478.W65 .W758 2016
820.9/358