Death So Noble
Memory, Meaning, and the First World War
9780774806008
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Death So Noble
Memory, Meaning, and the First World War
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.
336 pages

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
Bibliographic Essay
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