September Book of the Month at the Caledon Library
Book Discussion: The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
Mon, September 17, 6 – 7pm
Whitehorn Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
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Turning Weyland, Caledon Librarian and curator of the current exhibit on the Battle of Fredericksburg, will lead a discussion of Stephen Crane’s novel of the Civil War, The Red Badge of Courage. This novel was revolutionary in its day for its unsparing portrayal of war from the perspective of an enlisted man, and for its vivid, impressionistic language.
“Written in a post-photographic age, Red Badge discards contemporaneous conventions of battlefield prose for a discontinuous succession of “flashing images” that yield “photographic revelations.” Crane limits the novel’s point of view and fragments its narrative in order to focus the impact of each of his “battle pictures” and make us see the truth of his descriptions. … although much of [contemporary] General McClurg’s commentary about Red Badge’s lack of patriotism, for example, is overheated and irrelevant, he was not entirely wrong to suggest that Crane’s novel raised potentially disquieting questions about the state of turn-of-the-century American society.” (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/CRANE/reviews/section1.html )
Copies of the work may be had at the library, and it is to be found on-line at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/CRANE/badge.html
Caledon Library Sponsors a Story-telling Session at the Falling Anvil Pub,
Tales of Harvest Time
September 11th, 2008, 6pm SLT
Falling Anvil Public House
Caledon Tamrannoch
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