Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

by Jonathan F. Vance

Overview

This book examines Canada’s collective memory of the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s. It is a cultural history, considering art, music, and literature. Thematically organized into such subjects as the symbolism of the soldier, the implications of war memory for Canadian nationalism, and the idea of a just war, the book draws on military records, memoirs, war memorials, newspaper reports, fiction, popular songs, and films. It takes an unorthodox view of the Canadian war experience as a cultural and philosophical force rather than as a political and military event.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780774806008
Publisher:	University of British Columbia Press
Publication date:	01/15/1999
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1470L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

1 The Just War

2 Christ in Flanders

3 O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?

4 Accurs’d They Were Not There

5 The Soldier as Canada

6 Safeguarding the Past

7 If Ye Break Faith

8 To Found a Country

Conclusion

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