TY - BOOK AU - Owen,David AU - Pividori,Maria Cristina TI - Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse T2 - DQR Studies in Literature Series SN - 9789004314924 AV - PR478.W65 .W758 2016 U1 - 820.9/358 PY - 2016/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - World War, 1914-1918-Literature and the war KW - War in literature KW - Idealism in literature KW - Cruelty in literature KW - Memory in literature KW - English literature-20th century-History and criticism KW - Commonwealth literature (English)-20th century-History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4547327 ER -