Malcolm Cowley on Faulkner re: TRP

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I have self-glossed it as stoic awareness of suffering or death handled with poise.





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On Dec 3, 2012, at 8:10 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I can see that -  "grace under fire"  as merely behaving in a very graceful manner while being attacked.    I think that's a bit different from TRP's use in ATD.   
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> Bekah
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> On Dec 3, 2012, at 4:33 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> How does one define Hemingway's kind of Grace---Courage is grace under fire.
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>> The Grace of Hemingway, while related to the Grace in O'Connor and
>> Pynchon has more to do with the new American Hero, the Post_Great War
>> hero, the one Hemingway gave to American Literature. He is not
>> Cooper's Hero any longer, though he is certainly related to him and
>> resembles him a great deal.
>> 
>> But the Frontier is closed and the New Frontier, though emerging, and,
>> as we see in GR, soon to be an off the map Zone, is not yet on the
>> map.
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>> Like Cooper's hero, Hemingway's hero is a warrior, a man of action, a
>> tough man, a competitor, and like the Hero in the Cooper tradition, he
>> has a code of honor, one that is built around courage and honor,
>> endurance, perseverance, and incredible human resourcefulness. He
>> shows grace under enormous pressure, as the modern world hurls
>> confusion, unbolts the center from its hold, spins a gyre into a chaos
>> while mere anarchy is loosed upon the ceremony of innocense and all
>> certitude is drowned in a blind man's battle fallen into the bloody
>> ditch.
>> 
>> He has grace, but not Grace, for his thorough disallusionment is inexcapable.
>> 
>> As young P, who loved this frightening modern state of modern man, and
>> so skillfully and comically injected it into his first novel,
>> demonstrated, the modern Hero found nothing when he pushed through the
>> pasteboard---Nothing...Nothing is at the center of the mystery, at the
>> center of the ALL,
>> 
>> so, at least for Hemingway, faith, in grace, is the Faith in one's own
>> skill, in one's courage, in one's toughness...
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