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Words that preserved union (Charles ...

Gates, Steven M.

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Words that preserved union (Charles Gates).

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Words that preserved union (Charles Gates)./
作者:	Gates, Steven M.
面頁冊數:	318 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2413.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-07A.
標題:	Education, Language and Literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3097533
ISBN:	0496451464

Words that preserved union (Charles Gates).
Gates, Steven M.

Words that preserved union (Charles Gates). - 318 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2413.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 2003.

This dissertation examines a set of Civil War letters from a soldier to his family and argues that they serve as a revealing record of mid-nineteenth-century literacy, offering a window into the language and culture that shaped the upstate New York author of these letters. The critical examination of such letters is one way to approach literacy studies, since we can see clearly just how writing lessons in school and in the home were used by the soldier to gradually articulate an entire new experience of the world as he left his family to engage in military combat, an experience that would over several years require him to test the limits of his literacy and to develop his writing skills in surprising ways. The primary sources are the letters of Charles Gates, a volunteer with the First New York Light Artillery, Battery B.

ISBN: 0496451464Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018115
Education, Language and Literature.

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520 $a The dissertation includes analysis and interpretation of Charles Gates's letters, examined in the context of the research of a variety of historians and literacy scholars. Letters by other soldiers are occasionally offered to enrich the reading of Gates's letters and our understanding of his literacy. Schoolbooks, newspapers, and songbooks are also dealt with in order to help explain the nature of Gates's formal education and reading habits.
520 $a Gates employed numerous conventions in his letters that illuminate particular values in his culture. Other features of his writing emerged as a result of the unique challenges he faced during the war: the challenge to stretch his limited skills to describe his experiences to distant readers, the challenge to shape his language to communicate the unspeakable horrors of war, and the challenge to preserve his own humanity in the face of such dehumanizing activity.
520 $a Gates's relationship to his parents and his agrarian upbringing strongly influenced his writing, shaping specific features of his language, such as gender constructions, and framing his descriptions of the army's social order. While serving in the army, Gates extended his rudimentary literacy to meet the demands of his new circumstances. It is remarkable to discover how often he engaged in acts of literacy during the war, and this dissertation demonstrates the important role that newspaper reading, reading letters, and writing letters had for young soldiers. Over the course of the war, Gates's writing changed, and his writing changed him. Battle profoundly affected his writing as he struggled to construct a narrative that could tell complex and confusing battle stories, and as he sought to balance competing cultural pressures so that he could project an appropriate social image. By the summer of 1863, Gates's writing reveals a particular political identity that he had managed to shape out of the various elements of his literacy and his social upbringing. His war experience extended his literacy to the point where he was finally able to express some complex and meaningful ideas about citizenship and government and his relationship to his nation.
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