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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... mind is the epitome of the modern view of the world ; this view has been shelled to pieces . All we have left is the ironic , faint , wry smile of " assured diffidence . " There is no evidence , to the modern mind , of anything that ...
... mind rejects it ; the postmodern mind mistakes it for desire and fantasy . It is for poets to accept it — those we recognize only after time and wars and tides have come and gone . Shall we let the man rest , with his soldiers in their ...
... mind . Of this the postmodern world is aware with a vengeance . Is there no way to come face - to - face with what happened ? Is there no cer- tainty founded on something outside the human mind ? Postmodernists answer that if there were ...
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Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
NOVEMBER 4 | 41 |
NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
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