![]() ![]() In seeing the novel from this self-reflective perspective, critics posit The Wars as challenging the prominent notion that the First World War was a positive event for Canada's national development. ![]() Others, such as Shane Rhodes and Shelton Waldrep, interpret the rape of Robert Ross in the novel by fellow soldiers as symbolic of the violation of young Canadian soldiers by the Great War. As a result, critics from Eva-Marie Kroller to David Williams have preoccupied themselves with the role of photography in the novel, since photographs in The Wars and their self-reflexivity are integral to piecing together Ross's story and to understanding his character. Most criticism situates The Wars in the context of what Linda Hutcheon (The Canadian Postmodern) has called postmodern "historiographic metafiction," or a retelling of history through fiction. Timothy Findley's The Wars received immediate critical acclaim, winning the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1977. ![]()
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