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.
Mattison, Christopher: - Christopher Mattison has translated and edited numerous works from Russian and Chinese to English. In 2010 he moved to Hong Kong where he is the Director of the Sustainability of Memory and Artifacts (SOMA) Project at City University of Hong Kong.
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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. |
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