November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 09/11/2001 - 344 من الصفحات It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for America's identity. "The month begins with things that perish. But ultimately, November is a journey of hope, as was Lincoln's journey to Gettysburg. So too I will journey to Gettysburg in these pages. Like Lincoln's fellow citizens, I go there to assuage personal grief, to find answers; and I hope, for me as for them, that my personal sorrows become a vehicle for larger answers and a larger purpose. Lincoln addressed their grief, why not mine; he gave his generation purpose, why not ours." |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 29
... Liberty , and dedicated to the proposition that all men are cre- ated equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war , testing whether that nation , or any nation so conceived and so dedi- cated , can long endure . We are met on a ...
... liberty against another . This war will symbolize horror and futility , America's own small version of the First World War . As did the Civil War a hundred years earlier , this war will divide Americans against Americans , and bring ...
... Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness . Modern literature puts the first person at the forefront — call him Ishmael or Daedalus — and while postmodern theory takes the Self away , in theory , it also places the person of the observer at ...
... liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . People must hope . That nation must endure . What we think and what we believe change ; but what we remember together endures . What we remember together tells us ...
... Liberty's death , or her new birth ? Are humane values passing into selfish violence ? Will we abandon learning , which has disappointed us , for technology , which gratifies us ? Will we regain the world but lose our Self ? November is ...
المحتوى
1 | |
Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
NOVEMBER 4 | 41 |
NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
NOVEMBER 9 | 73 |
NOVEMBER 14 | 84 |
NOVEMBER 15 | 96 |
NOVEMBER 16 | 106 |
NOVEMBER 22 | 182 |
NOVEMBER 23 | 193 |
NOVEMBER 25 | 213 |
NOVEMBER 26 | 228 |
NOVEMBER 27 | 251 |
NOVEMBER 29 | 266 |
NOVEMBER 30 | 273 |
Modernism and Postmodernism | 285 |
NOVEMBER 17 | 119 |
The Gettysburg Address | 131 |
NOVEMBER 20 | 162 |
NOVEMBER 21 | 171 |
Elegy Written in a Country ChurchYard | 298 |
Notes on the Sources | 305 |