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Dracula as a Foretelling of WWI

2011
We have long been fascinated with the connection between monsters and our underlying fears. Jerome Cohen's 1996 book Monster Theory looks at horror stories as a sort of Rorschach test for the culture as a whole. If we look carefully, we can see in them our fears and anxieties about ourselves.
Carter, Genesea, Durwood, Tom
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Keith Macgowan - WWI letters

2022
A typescript collection of letters written by Keith Macgowan during his army service in the 131st Battalion of the New Westminster Regiment, the majority to his mother, Fanny Owen Macgowan. The letters date from April 30, 1916 to November of 1919 and cover Captain Macgowan's training at Victoria and Vernon BC, the battlefields in France and Belgium and
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Frederick Carne - WWI letters

2022
A typescript collection of letters written by Frederick Ancel Carne between September 1915 and February 1919, primarily to his mother and father as well as to his sister Marjory. The transcripts were typed by his sister, Mrs. Agnes Tate. Frederick (born in 1889) and his brother Harold Gowen (born 1897) enlisted in 1915 with the Canadian Army Medical ...
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Mary Pickford’s WWI Patriotism

2014
The cinematic tales of World War One (WWI) in the United States needed to unify the politics of the industry and the US government: any creative work tended to go even beyond the intended propaganda message it was supposed to convey. The motion pictures industry, thought to be assuming a rather pacifist stance in the early years of the war,1 decided to
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WWI Centennials and Unfolding Legacies

2020
Taking into consideration the massive number of military and civilian casualties in WWI, the re-drawing of the political map of Europe (1919–21), and creation of the League of Nations (1920), the forerunner to the UN, this chapter explores the initial responses of the authors to the research call for abstracts on the theme of Places of Memory and ...
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