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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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