Keeping and Breeding Snakes by Chris Mattison

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Keeping and Breeding Snakes by Chris Mattison

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Keeping and Breeding Snakes by Chris Mattison

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.

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Christopher Mattison has translated and edited various works into English from Russian and Mandarin. He relocated to Hong Kong in 2010 and is now the Director of the City University of Hong Kong's Sustainability of Memory and Artifacts (SOMA) Project.

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ISBN 13 9780713725797
ISBN 10 0713725796
Title Keeping and Breeding Snakes
Author Chris Mattison
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cassell & Co (A member of the Orion Publishing Group)
Year published 1996-01-11
Number of pages 183
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.