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y separately published work icon Re-Imagining the First World War : New Perspectives in Anglophone Literature and Culture anthology   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Re-Imagining the First World War : New Perspectives in Anglophone Literature and Culture
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland,
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Western Europe, Europe,:Cambridge Scholars Press , 2015 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The War Quandary : Some Notes on the Images of the Great War Pre-1939 Australian Literature., Ryszard W. Wolny , single work criticism

'Ryszard W. Wolny, which provides an overview of early Australian war writings. According to the author, during and shortly after the First World War little of literary value was produced in Australia, which is surprising, taking into account the myth of the Great War in Australian culture. Dividing his analysis into manly adventures, sceptical voices, women's responses, and heroic myth-making, Wolny interprets a variety of Australian poetical and fictional texts, with a particular emphasis on Frederic Manning's Her Privates We (1929).' (Introduction xv)

 (p. 22)
The Anzac Legend and Australian National Identity One Hundred Years After the Great War, Tomasz Gadzina , single work criticism
'Tomasz Gadzina, takes on the subject of the Anzac legend, analysing the figure of the "bushman" or "digger" as the prototype of the Australian soldier, as depicted during and after the Great War. Gadzina notes that although the image of the Anzac soldier was not exactly uniform, it nevertheless represented a blueprint for the formation of a national identity that was in many respects exclusive and that foreclosed the possibility of other narratives, for which reason it has come under attack from several directions.' (Introduction)
 (p. 234-246)
The Great War as a Trigger for Growing Up and Gaining Maturity in Rilla of Ingleside, Dagmara Drewnia , single work criticism
'Dagmara Drewniak traces the parallels between the maturation of the protagonist of L.M. Montgomery's novel and of Canada as a state. At the same time, she points to the novel's function as a Bildungsroman and emphasises the book's underappreciated potential as a text presenting the totality of war in its focus on the (underexplored) subjects of the home front and the lives of women in wartime. ' (Publication abstract)
 (p. 247-256)
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