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American Elegy
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Author : Jeffrey Simpson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
American Elegy written by Jeffrey Simpson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with City and town life categories.
This work is a portrait of America, a way of life, and a familiy that are vanishing even while coming to life on the pages. The author is the final descendent of pioneers who braved death to settle a dangerous frontier to found the Western Pennsylvania town of Parnassus.
A Dangerous Country An American Elegy
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Author : Ron Kovic
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2024-02-13
A Dangerous Country An American Elegy written by Ron Kovic and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July and one of the country's most powerful and passionate antiwar voices, completes his Vietnam Trilogy with this poignant, inspiring, and deeply personal elegy to America. WHEN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD RON KOVIC enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1964, he couldn’t foresee that he would return from Vietnam paralyzed and in a wheelchair for life. His best-selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July became an antiwar classic and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Tom Cruise as Kovic. His follow-up, Hurricane Street, chronicled his advocacy for Vietnam veterans’ rights. A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy completes Kovic’s Vietnam Trilogy, delving deep into his long and often agonizing journey home from war and eventual healing, forgiveness, and spiritual redemption. The book opens with Kovic’s never-before-revealed Vietnam diary (July 7, 1967–July 26, 1968). His entries from this period portray a patriotic young soldier with a strong moral and religious conscience. Kovic then recalls his political awakening after his return from Vietnam confined to a wheelchair following his horrific injury. He also chronicles the tremendous guilt he feels over his accidental killing of a fellow Marine while on patrol. This killing psychologically torments him as much as his severe disability. After years of social, political, and sexual turmoil—and on the brink of suicide—Kovic experiences a powerful epiphany that gives him a reason and purpose to live; a renewed faith and strength to carry on. Although his trauma is severe, his third memoir is ultimately the inspirational story of a survivor finding a way to rise above his depression and despair, forgiving his enemies and himself, and growing deeply committed to a new life.
American Elegy
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Author : Jeffrey Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Release Date : 1996
American Elegy written by Jeffrey Simpson and has been published by Dutton Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Risking all to transform a wilderness into the land of their hopes and dreams. We witness the rise and fall of a town that seemed to its inhabitants as eternal as their righteous moral code and values yet proved as mortal as those who built it. We observe the solving of family mysteries and the careful closeting of family secrets behind layers of propriety. We watch pride and beauty and ambition flower and fade, as the author's handsome, gifted young father and.
American Elegy
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Author : Max Cavitch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
American Elegy written by Max Cavitch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, "elegies are poems about being left behind," writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history of a diverse people's poetic experience of mourning and of mortality's profound challenge to creative living. By telling this history in political, psychological, and aesthetic terms, American Elegy powerfully reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism.Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin, Bradstreet, Mather, Wheatley, Freneau, and Annis Stockton, highlighting their defiance of boundaries--between public and private, male and female, rational and sentimental--and demonstrating how closely intertwined the work of mourning and the work of nationalism were in the revolutionary era. He then turns to elegy's adaptations during the market-driven Jacksonian age, including more obliquely elegiac poems like those of William Cullen Bryant and the popular child elegies of Emerson, Lydia Sigourney, and others. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch discusses poems written by free blacks and slaves, as well as white abolitionists, seeing in them the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. In addition to a major new reading of Whitman's great elegy for Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," Cavitch takes up less familiar passages from Whitman as well as Melville's and Lazarus's poems following Lincoln's death. American Elegy offers critical and often poignant insights into the place of mourning in American culture. Cavitch examines literary responses to historical events--such as the American Revolution, Native American removal, African-American slavery, and the Civil War--and illuminates the states of loss, hope, desire, and love in American studies today.Max Cavitch is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
American Elegy
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Author : Jeffrey Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Plume Books
Release Date : 1997-09
American Elegy written by Jeffrey Simpson and has been published by Plume Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
American Elegy is an unforgettable portrait of America, a way of life, and a family that are vanishing even while coming to life on these exquisitely written pages. The author is the final descendent of pioneers who braved death to settle a dangerous frontier; they went as far west as they were able, and settled in a Western Pennsylvania town whose name reflected their high hopes and noble ideas: Parnassus.
American Elegy
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Author : F Bradley Reaume
language : en
Publisher: Penshurst Publishing
Release Date : 2023-07-25
American Elegy written by F Bradley Reaume and has been published by Penshurst Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-25 with categories.
On the cusp of a new millennium, those beginning their careers in law, accounting, business, education, politics, government and computers have no idea their world is changing-terror attacks, the tech stock crash, war. 'American Elegy' is the tale of people brought up in one world, only to find out that their country is no longer what they thought it was. Vested interests struggle to retain dominance in a changing world. Young adults are caught in the whipsaw of change: some adapt, some are destroyed and others try to understand what is happening. These characters-they are people you know. You live in their world. Their fears and concerns, are yours too. 'American Elegy' details the slow, invisible twisting of what it means to be American in the 21st century. America is different now. And so are you.
That The People Might Live
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Author : Arnold Krupat
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-15
That The People Might Live written by Arnold Krupat and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The word "elegy" comes from the Ancient Greek elogos, meaning a mournful poem or song, in particular, a song of grief in response to loss. Because mourning and memorialization are so deeply embedded in the human condition, all human societies have developed means for lamenting the dead, and, in "That the People Might Live," Arnold Krupat surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony of the Tlingit people known as koo’eex, examining as well a number of Ghost Dance songs, which have been reinterpreted in culturally specific ways by many different tribal nations. Krupat treats elegiac "farewell" speeches of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in considerable detail, and comments on retrospective autobiographies by Black Hawk and Black Elk. Among contemporary Native writers, he looks at elegiac work by Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, Maurice Kenny, and Ralph Salisbury, among others. Despite differences of language and culture, he finds that death and loss are consistently felt by Native peoples both personally and socially: someone who had contributed to the People’s well-being was now gone. Native American elegiac expression offered mourners consolation so that they might overcome their grief and renew their will to sustain communal life.
American Elegy
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Author : Arthur George Karpen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
American Elegy written by Arthur George Karpen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Revisiting The Elegy In The Black Lives Matter Era
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Author : Tiffany Austin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-12-09
Revisiting The Elegy In The Black Lives Matter Era written by Tiffany Austin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic that has led to recent deaths of unarmed black men, women, and children. This volume combines scholarly and creative understandings of the elegy in order to discern how mourning feeds our political awareness in this dystopian time as writers attempt to see, hear, and say something in relation to the bodies of the dead as well as to living readers. Moreover, this book provides a model for how to productively interweave theoretical and deeply personal accounts to encourage discussions about art and activism that transgress disciplinary boundaries, as well as lines of race, gender, class, and nation.
Beautiful Soul
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Author : Joshua Corey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Beautiful Soul written by Joshua Corey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories.
Fiction. "This powerful novel, which pays out its rewards gradually, carefully, but also crisply, dare I say electrically, may be Joshua Corey's first, but it feels exactly like the highly satisfying product of the fully formed imagination that birthed it. All of Corey's hard-earned skill as a poet is put here to useful work. The push-pull between stunning language and inventive narrative is pure pleasure." Laird Hunt "Joshua Corey's BEAUTIFUL SOUL offers a swirling, shadowy cosmos lit by intelligence, urgency, and heart. Its swirl is cinematic "estranged and operatic" but never at the expense of the body, be it the bitten nipple, or the "bloody middle" of history. I especially admire Corey's conjuring of Ruth: fulcrum of readerly empathy, inheritor of mysterious and difficult histories, navigator of the present's strata, honorary "new reader." Go on her journey with her; "the book is waiting." Maggie Nelson "All the beauty of the world is in the flow of each living person's narrative, from moment to moment, and the way these stories also encompass the ghosts of the past this is the angle of incidence Joshua Corey is attempting to recreate in a novel as precisely defined as the images in a mirror and as diffuse as the colors and shadings in a prism. BEAUTIFUL SOUL, with its ever-shifting parameters, from periphery to center and back again, is a testament to the infinite longing for something or someone who isn't there, the last word on a world where everything matters." Lewis Warsh"