Everything you need to understand or teach
The Wars.
Products may contain comprehensive summaries, analysis, notes, articles, essays,
lesson plans and more. See below for details on what is included.
Critical Essay by Michael Taylor
We no longer believe that some subjects are more appropriate for literary treatment than others: nowadays, every human activity, no matter how banal or disgusting, off...
Read more
Critical Essay by Thomas R. Edwards
Timothy Findley's "The Wars" is … elegantly written and structured and well aware of what can't be said about important human exp...
Read more
Critical Essay by Gary T. Davenport
[Brevity] is disastrous in the hands of Timothy Findley. In fact understatement of a very slick and ineffective sort is chronically recurrent in The Wars…. T...
Read more
Critical Essay by Bruce Pirie
In Timothy Findley's novel The Wars, Robert Ross, soon after arriving in Europe, finds himself leading a line of horses through thick green fog. The foul smell of ...
Read more
The Wars, by Timothy Findley, explores many of the obsessions that color all of Findley's writing: violence, loneliness, a concern for animal rights, and the survival of the individual in war. As th...
Read more
Lorraine York observes that "for Findley, this is what the war does: it perverts the natural." This observation will be discussed with respect to the natural elements of earth and fire.
The earth i...
Read more
Critical Essay by Michael Taylor
The Wars: Analysis of the Rape of Robert Ross
