Research Catalog

Title

Comparing grief in French, British and Canadian Great War fiction (1977-2014) / Anna Branach-Kallas and Piotr Sadkowski.

Author

Branach-Kallas, Anna

Publication

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill Rodopi, [2018]

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Additional Authors

Sadkowski, Piotr

Description

vi, 251 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Comparing Grief in French, British and Canadian Great War Fiction (1977- 2014) is a comparative study of selected First World War novels published in France, Britain and Canada in the last forty years"--

Series Statement

Textxet : studies in comparative literature ; volume 88

Uniform Title

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 88.

Subject

• World War (1914-1918)
• 1914-1918
• World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war
• Grief in literature
• War and literature
• Weltkrieg 1914-1918
• Trauer Motiv

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and index.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Between stigmatisation and sacralisation : The officers' ward by Marc Dugain -- From destruction to reconstruction : My dear, I wanted to tell you by Louisa Young -- Facial disfigurement and shell shock : Tell by Frances Itani -- Abjection and precarity : The great swindle by Pierre Lemaitre -- Aversion and masks : Toby's room by Pat Barker -- Maternal pacifism : Dans la guerre by Alice Ferney -- Grief and betrayal : Zennor in darkness by Helen Dunmore -- Gendered disorder : My dear, I wanted to tell you by Louisa Young -- Asymmetric similarities : Deafening by Frances Itani -- Empathetic unsettlement : Les fleurs d'hiver by Angélique Villeneuve -- Egoism and brutalisation : By a slow river by Philippe Claudel -- Adoptive kinship : The heroes welcome by Louisa Young -- Community of memory : Broken ground by Jack Hodgins -- Canada divided : The draft dodger by Louis Caron and A secret between us by Daniel Poliquin -- Community of (not)seeing : In desolate heaven by Robert Edric -- Psychic crypt : The stone carvers by Jane Urquhart -- The illness of mourning : Toby's room by Pat Barker -- The cult of mourning : The great swindle by Pierre Lemaitre -- Infinite grief : Le monument. Roman vrai by Claude Duneton -- An intimate "archaeology of knowledge" : The wars by Timothy Findley -- Writing as the act of sepulchre : The acacia by Claude Simon -- A family's Compiègne Wagon : Fields of glory by Jean Rouaud -- Female seekers : In pale battalions by Robert Goddard and Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks -- Homoerotic post-memory : Douze lettres d'amour au soldat inconnu by Olivier Barbarant.

Call Number

JFE 18-9494

ISBN

• 9789004364776
• 9004364773

LCCN

2018024932

OCLC

1028823187

Author

Branach-Kallas, Anna, author.

Title

Comparing grief in French, British and Canadian Great War fiction (1977-2014) / Anna Branach-Kallas and Piotr Sadkowski.

Publisher

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill Rodopi, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Textxet : studies in comparative literature ; volume 88

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 88.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and index.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1914-1918

Added Author

Sadkowski, Piotr, author.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9494