Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I

Looking at the way sacrifice, service, and the commemoration of war are represented in literary works, this book argues that iterations of a notion of national identity work to counter current anxieties about the stability of the nation-state, in particular about the failure of the ideal of a national ââ'¬Å"character.ââ'¬Â

• | Author: Neta Gordon
• | Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 222 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1771122382
• | ISBN-13: 9781771122382