La Nuit européenne des musées

Exceptional opening for the European Night of Museums of the exhibition The Sleeping Green. Un no man’s land 100 ans après de Dianne Bos.

Lecture at 7 pm : World War One and Canadian Literature

By Harry Vandervlist ( University of Calgary)

When World War One commenced in 1914, Canada was still a nation in the process of becoming, and its literature was still finding a voice. How did wartime experience shape this emerging literary voice, both during the war and in the decades to follow? What might explain the persistence of World War One as a subject for Canadian writers, a full century later? This lecture addresses these questions with reference to authors from John McCrae and Lucy Maud Montgomery, to Jane Urquhart and Joseph Boyden.

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