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.
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 |