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"The Bitterness and the Greatness": Reading F. G. Scott's War
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"The Bitterness and the Greatness": Reading F. G. Scott's War
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Frederick George Scott's 1922 memoir, The Great War As I Saw It (along with his poems, such as his 1917 volume In The Battle Silences) is among the best-known of the early Canadian accounts of the First World War. As the Anglican chaplain of the Eighth Royal Rifles of Quebec City, Canon Scott (1861-1944) volunteered to accompany the first Canadian Expeditionary Division before war was even declared, and he remained overseas until after the Armistice. The author explains that the range of emotional experience Cannon Scott draws on (broadened by the fact that he had three sons in the Canadian forces, of whom one was killed and a second gassed), and the detail he provides of daily life, make his memoir a valuable document in the study of the impact of the war. Furthermore, she contends, Cannon Scott's memoir embodies both aspects of the movement from romance to irony: it is first of all, in its language, imagery, and value structure, a romance and, secondly, in its subtext, an ironic undermining of this interpretation of war.
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Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature Canadienne
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Vol. 16
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no. 1
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82-101
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Winter 1991
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en
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Yardley, M. Jeanne. “‘The Bitterness and the Greatness’: Reading F. G. Scott’s War.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature Canadienne Vol. 16, no. 1 (Winter 1991): 82–101. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/8134/9191.
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