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'A Righteous Cause': War Propaganda and Canadian Fiction, 1915-1921
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In this paper, a deeper understanding of the complicated connections among war, propaganda, literature, and Canadian society is explored by recovering, contextualizing and analysing fictional works about war published between 1915 and 1921.Abstract:
War fiction enjoys a long critical and historical legacy in Canada, although little attention has been paid to the many novels and stories published during and immediately after the First World War. The line between literature and propaganda in many works of this period is sometimes pronounced, sometimes difficult to distinguish. Popular novelists such as Gilbert Parker and Ralph Connor used their writings and widespread influence overtly to support the Allied propaganda effort. Others, such as Stephen Leacock, L.M. Montgomery and Harry M. Wodson, reflected the rhetoric of imperialism, total victory and Germanophobia that effective propaganda had made an intrinsic part of wartime discourse in Canada. By recovering, contextualising and analysing fictional works about war published between 1915 and 1921, this article seeks a deeper understanding of the complicated connections among war, propaganda, literature and Canadian society.read more
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Of solemn pacts and paper scraps: International law and the purpose of war, 1914–1918
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Humour in Hell: Stephen Leacock's First World War Writings, 1915–1919
TL;DR: In a series of public lectures given to raise funds for Belgian relief, a widely distributed pamphlet urging the reorganisation of Canada’s national economy, and dozens of humorous short works collected in volumes between 1915 and 1919, Leacock embraced the period's propagandistic spirit while subverting many propaganda tropes as discussed by the authors.
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Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War
TL;DR: Ouditt as discussed by the authors examines the traumatic nature of women's experiences during the Great War, and the complex ideological structures they constructed in order to legitimate their position in the public world of work and politics.
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Pandora's Box: Propaganda and War Hysteria in the United States During World War I
TL;DR: The medical problem of modifying the defective gene(s) in an individual gamete or zygote by gene therapy and implanting the replaced or repaired genes into the mother thereby producing a healthy child have not yet been surmounted, but assuming such protocols can be successfully performed, gene therapy will probably be sanctioned universally by health authorities as a legitimate implementation of the mandate on physicians to treat the disabled.
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