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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... merely that few , if any , texts of the modern world have begot an interpretive practice denser , more diverse , or methodologically more self- conscious and this for a people notoriously scornful of history and tradition . Engrossed ...
... merely consistent with , but actually re- quired , by the 1787 Constitution of the United States . One could perhaps argue that this is an overstatement of the Con- stitution's authority for all spectrums of American political opinion ...
... merely invoke the People , they very nearly create it . It is only mildly polemical to insist that the very notion of the United States is , first and foremost , a sheer verbal invention , analogous to the World in the first chapter of ...
... merely assumed since the argu- ment is an old and familiar one that whatever the considerable merits of writers such as Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet , or Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper , and however clearly ...
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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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