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Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War : That Better Whiles May Follow Worse.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: DQR Studies in Literature SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (275 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004314924
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great WarDDC classification:
  • 820.9/358
LOC classification:
  • PR478.W65 .W758 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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