Thomas Wolfe's Civil WarUniversity of Alabama Press, 2004 - 214 páginas An anthology of Thomas Wolfe's short stories, novel excerpts, and plays illuminating the Civil War This collection of Thomas Wolfe's writings demonstrates the centrality of the Civil War to Wolfe's literary concerns and identity. From Look Homeward, Angel to The Hill Beyond and The Web and the Rock, Wolfe perpetually returned to the themes of loss, dissolution, sorrow, and romance engendered in the minds of many southerners by the Civil War and its lingering aftermath. His characters reflect time and again on Civil War heroes and dwell on ghostlike memories handed down by their mothers, fathers, and grandfathers. Wolfe and his protagonists compare their contemporary southern landscape to visions they have conjured of its appearance before and during the war, thereby merging the past with the present in an intense way. Ultimately, Wolfe's prose style--incantatory and rhapsodic--is designed to evoke the national tragedy on an emotional level. Selections of Wolfe's writings in this collection include short stories ("Chickamauga," "Four Lost Men," "The Plumed Knight"), excerpts from his novels (O Lost, the restored version of Look Homeward, Angel, The Hills Beyond, and Of Time and the River) and a play, Mannerhouse, edited and introduced by David Madden. Madden, who makes the provocative claim that everything a southern writer writes derives from the Civil War experience, also highlights many issues essential to understanding Wolfe's absorption with the Civil War. |
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... fierce and lean and lonely in the night , burning forever while the sleepers slept ? Were they not burning , burning , burning , even as the rest of us have burned ? Were Garfield , Arthur , Harrison , and Hayes not burning in the night ...
... fierce and jubilant young men , who waited there , as we have waited , in the silent barren street with trembling lips , numb hands , with terror , savage joy , fierce rapture alive and stirring in their entrails - did they not feel ...
... fierce eternity of hatred , a corrupt animation which no years nor centuries can wither up . Whether he ever answered these letters I do not know , nor did I ever ask him . I believe he must have , since hers had been addressed to him ...
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From O Lost | 56 |
From The Web of Earth | 84 |
From Of Time and the River | 112 |
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