Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 2005. gada 15. nov. - 192 lappuses The United States Constitution, battleground of a politically bifurcated nation, and sponsor of that nation's now threatened cultural unity, is a quintessentially political document. Americans' representatives swear loyalty to it, and her soldiers die for it. Yet no one has ever seriously considered the formative influence this document, so central a force for all Americans, has had on American cultural life. Now, in this ambitious book, Mitchell Meltzer has for the first time demonstrated the extent to which the Constitution is both source and inspiration for America's greatest literary masterworks. |
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... course of events , peoples appear and nations arise over many long years , across ages , and their past is consequently lost in a primeval mist , stretching back to so - called time immemorial . Historians can study the remaining ev ...
... course for all its eloquence , the document did not in itself accomplish the colonies ' independence — that required nine long years of war's bloodshed and cruelty . Nor did the independence that came from the 1783 victory in that war ...
... course , to two continents and a host of nations , but in this context they refer exclusively to the population of the former British colonies — though by no means were all of their inhabitants British — of the North Amer- ican mainland ...
... course , mean utterly different . Differences and similarities are matters of degree only ; but it is precisely that degree which is of interest . လ PART ONE The Constitution as a Secular Revelation Z Introduction : The Constitution ...
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Saturs
At the Beginning | 11 |
The Path to Union | 23 |
The People Having Spoken Speak | 31 |
Almost a Miracle | 39 |
The Paradox of Secular Revelation | 49 |
Declarations of American Literary Independence | 57 |
Preserving the Revelation | 66 |
Preserving the Paradox | 78 |
Essays in Time | 97 |
A Poetic Form for Straying | 111 |
Clinging to Narrative | 125 |
Confidence and the Darkness of Revelation | 144 |
The Literary Art of Uniting States | 156 |
Notes | 165 |
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The Literary Renaissance of Secular Revelation | 87 |
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