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Title Bearing witness : perspectives on war and peace from the arts and humanities / edited by Sherrill Grace, Patrick Imbert, Tiffany Johnstone.
Publication Info Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2012 (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012)



Descript 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations (some color), digital file
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Contents Preface : bearing witness / Aritha van Herk -- Warplay : spectacle, performance, and (dis)simulation of combat / Alan Filewod -- Understanding the motivation to enlist / Jonathan F. Vance -- Canadian poets on war / Sandra Djwa -- Metaphor, metalepsis, and the colonial library : deconstructing Inyenzi and Ubuhake metaphors in Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the pool in Kigali and Julien Pierce's Speak, Rwanda / Lauren Lydic -- The Georgics of war and peace : following Claude Simon, Nobel Laureate / Mireille Calle-Gruber -- "Expressionist-artillerist" : "poet" and "soldier" as conflicting role models in German avant-garde poetry from the First World War / Martin Löschnigg -- Above or below ground? Depicting corpses in First and Second World War official Canadian war art / Laura Brandon -- Bearing witness and cultural memory : The wreckage, Burning vision, and war in the Pacific / Sherrill Grace -- Emmy Andriesse, Dutch wartime photographer : the hunger winter of 1945 / Christl Verduyn and Conny Steenman Marcusse -- Underlining the lies surrounding the "holy war" and "infinite justice" / Patrick Imbert -- Comparing South Africa's negotiated settlement with elusive peacemaking in Israel/Palestine / Heribert Adam -- Northern war stories : the Dene, the archive, and Canada's atomic modernity / Peter C. van Wyck -- Perspectives on war / Anne Wheeler -- On active service, and Let us wake from this dream : a poem and a string quartet / Janet Henshaw Danielson.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780773587632 (electronic bk.)
0773587632 (electronic bk.)
9780773540583
077354058X
9780773540590
0773540598
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Subject War and literature.
War in literature.
War in art.
Art and war.
Peace in literature.
Peace in art.
Alt author Grace, Sherrill, 1944-
Imbert, Patrick, 1948-
Johnstone, Tiffany, 1982-
Descript 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations (some color), digital file
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Preface : bearing witness / Aritha van Herk -- Warplay : spectacle, performance, and (dis)simulation of combat / Alan Filewod -- Understanding the motivation to enlist / Jonathan F. Vance -- Canadian poets on war / Sandra Djwa -- Metaphor, metalepsis, and the colonial library : deconstructing Inyenzi and Ubuhake metaphors in Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the pool in Kigali and Julien Pierce's Speak, Rwanda / Lauren Lydic -- The Georgics of war and peace : following Claude Simon, Nobel Laureate / Mireille Calle-Gruber -- "Expressionist-artillerist" : "poet" and "soldier" as conflicting role models in German avant-garde poetry from the First World War / Martin Löschnigg -- Above or below ground? Depicting corpses in First and Second World War official Canadian war art / Laura Brandon -- Bearing witness and cultural memory : The wreckage, Burning vision, and war in the Pacific / Sherrill Grace -- Emmy Andriesse, Dutch wartime photographer : the hunger winter of 1945 / Christl Verduyn and Conny Steenman Marcusse -- Underlining the lies surrounding the "holy war" and "infinite justice" / Patrick Imbert -- Comparing South Africa's negotiated settlement with elusive peacemaking in Israel/Palestine / Heribert Adam -- Northern war stories : the Dene, the archive, and Canada's atomic modernity / Peter C. van Wyck -- Perspectives on war / Anne Wheeler -- On active service, and Let us wake from this dream : a poem and a string quartet / Janet Henshaw Danielson.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780773587632 (electronic bk.)
0773587632 (electronic bk.)
9780773540583
077354058X
9780773540590
0773540598
Subject War and literature.
War in literature.
War in art.
Art and war.
Peace in literature.
Peace in art.
Alt author Grace, Sherrill, 1944-
Imbert, Patrick, 1948-
Johnstone, Tiffany, 1982-

Subject War and literature.
War in literature.
War in art.
Art and war.
Peace in literature.
Peace in art.
Descript 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations (some color), digital file
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Preface : bearing witness / Aritha van Herk -- Warplay : spectacle, performance, and (dis)simulation of combat / Alan Filewod -- Understanding the motivation to enlist / Jonathan F. Vance -- Canadian poets on war / Sandra Djwa -- Metaphor, metalepsis, and the colonial library : deconstructing Inyenzi and Ubuhake metaphors in Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the pool in Kigali and Julien Pierce's Speak, Rwanda / Lauren Lydic -- The Georgics of war and peace : following Claude Simon, Nobel Laureate / Mireille Calle-Gruber -- "Expressionist-artillerist" : "poet" and "soldier" as conflicting role models in German avant-garde poetry from the First World War / Martin Löschnigg -- Above or below ground? Depicting corpses in First and Second World War official Canadian war art / Laura Brandon -- Bearing witness and cultural memory : The wreckage, Burning vision, and war in the Pacific / Sherrill Grace -- Emmy Andriesse, Dutch wartime photographer : the hunger winter of 1945 / Christl Verduyn and Conny Steenman Marcusse -- Underlining the lies surrounding the "holy war" and "infinite justice" / Patrick Imbert -- Comparing South Africa's negotiated settlement with elusive peacemaking in Israel/Palestine / Heribert Adam -- Northern war stories : the Dene, the archive, and Canada's atomic modernity / Peter C. van Wyck -- Perspectives on war / Anne Wheeler -- On active service, and Let us wake from this dream : a poem and a string quartet / Janet Henshaw Danielson.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Grace, Sherrill, 1944-
Imbert, Patrick, 1948-
Johnstone, Tiffany, 1982-
ISBN 9780773587632 (electronic bk.)
0773587632 (electronic bk.)
9780773540583
077354058X
9780773540590
0773540598

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