November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIt 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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... postmodern , and he was looking forward to Advent , too . November 1965 la Drang , Vietnam . The armed forces of the United States fight their first major battle in a losing war that opposes enlightened self - interest to the dark ...
... postmodern theory takes the Self away , in theory , it also places the person of the observer at the focal point of scientific and historical observation , and whenever one scrambles literature according to postmodern specifications ...
... postmodern world — and , characteris- tically for postmodernism , did not know it . But we know it now . Our heritage includes both modernism and postmodernism ; it includes the medieval world , the ancient world , the philosophies of ...
... postmodernism is the way we live . Never before have people been surrounded by alternatives , all of them in principle equally valid , therefore all equally invalid . The world is poured into our monitor . Similarly , postmodern ...
... postmodern world . What resource does this spent generation still have ? The past . We must believe in our history in order to believe in ourselves . Modernism discovered the Self . When the individual , personal Self came to the ...
Contents
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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 |