November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 09/11/2001 - 344 páginas 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. |
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... language : " our fathers , " " altogether fitting and proper , " " our poor power to add or detract , ” “ the last full measure of devotion , " " a new birth of freedom . " Like the language of Paradise Lost , the language of the ...
... language . There is no objec- tive reality out there to which language refers . There is no truth that is not merely a linguistic construct . Language , in turn , is nothing but a tool we use to get or do what we want . No matter that ...
... language , which is beyond the text's control . Perhaps an example could be the difference between Jefferson's idea of man as it appears in the text of the Declaration of Inde- pendence " white , propertied " -and Lincoln's : white or ...
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