De-automatization in Timothy Findley's "The Wars"
- Timothy Findley's "The Wars" is a very powerful and disturbing book. Despite the novel's historically distant setting, the events of "The Wars" do not seem distant at all: the reader is brought close to the horrible violence of World War I and its devastating impact on a young mind. The question is why? The topic is certainly not new — we are аll too familiar with the World War I period. The theme is also an old one — a young man's loss of innocence and baptism by fire on the battlefield. The novelty and vividness of Findley's work are attributable to another source: its form. I hope to show that one artistic device in particular — de-automatization — is largely responsible for the novel's powerful impact on the modern reader.
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| Author: | Vladimir Tumanov |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-363890 |
| ISSN: | 0008-4360 |
| Parent Title (German): | Canadian literature |
| Publisher: | University of British Columbia |
| Place of publication: | Vancouver |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2014/12/30 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1991 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2014/12/30 |
| GND Keyword: | Findley, Timothy / The wars; Erzähltechnik |
| Volume: | 130 |
| Issue: | 130 |
| Page Number: | 9 |
| First Page: | 107 |
| Last Page: | 115 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 367459639 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: | 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.07.00 Ästhetik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
