Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

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CRA Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War/edited by Henry Binder. (The only complete edition from the original manuscript) New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. c1999

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CRA Davis, Linda. Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. C1998

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CRA Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage/edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. (Modern Critical Interpretations) New York: Chelsea House Publishers. c1987

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Esteve, Mary. A "Gorgeous Neutrality": Stephen Crane's Documentary Anaesthetics English Literary History (ELH) 62.3 (1995) 663-689

"In the following essay I want to suggest that the anaesthetic condition finds expression in James's and, more centrally, Crane's work not simply as a phenomenal fact but as a non-phenomenal figure. It contributes to James's articulation of physiology and philosophy, more specifically, to his ontological conception of a 'pure' experiential condition, that constitutes neither subjective nor objective experience but manifests itself instead as 'neutrals, indifferents, undecideds, posits, data, facts.'"

Renza, Louis A. Crane's The red badge of courage. The Explicator v. 56 (Winter 1998) p. 82-4
To some extent, Crane's The Red Badge of Courage is more about a later American generation forgetting the Civil War than a realistic depiction of how that war was actually fought from the viewpoint of the common soldier. Crane also exposes the vulnerability of photo-realism to indeterminate, interpretative codes and so contests the mass media's attempt to change how one recollects such historical events as the Civil War.

Dooley, Patrick K. The Humanism of Stephen Crane. The Humanist v. 56 (Jan/Feb 1996) p.14-17

Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, clearly expressed the humanist agenda in his writings. Despite the fact that his writing career spanned a mere 12 years, as a journalist, war correspondent, poet, novelist, and short-story writer extraordinaire, Crane produced a substantial body of literature espousing a bold and robust humanism. He shared with his contemporaries the belief that experience, not "Truth," "Reality," or "the Good," is the starting point for and the culmination of philosophical reflection. Central to his philosophical outlook was his commitment to the importance of human projects and his acknowledgement of the efficacy and limitations of human efforts.

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