November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 09.11.2001 - 344 Seiten 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." |
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... mean- ing of the Gettysburg Address as on its poetic and other literary resonances . In particular , he ties November 19 , 1863 , the time of the Address , to November 11 , 1918 , in order to reflect on how Lincoln may still speak to us ...
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... means , and perhaps even ask , " Where was God ? " Where indeed . Kennedy had just delivered a speech echoing the same Declaration of Independence that Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg had echoed , and not only did Kennedy use biblical ...
... means of survival . Tragedy is calamity that must be explained . Explanations are sought , how- ever , not for themselves but as a means of going on , of overcoming the paralysis that would be death — of ourselves , or of a nation ...
... means we can neither evade our heritage nor escape our place in history . " We will be remembered in spite of ourselves , " President Lincoln said . Our past floods through us to our posterity . We think we are drowning in the confusion ...
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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 |