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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... political document as the Constitution , rarely alluded to in the litera- ture itself , can in any way account for such original , often outrageous , literary masterpieces as Herman Melville's Moby - Dick , Walt Whit- man's Leaves of ...
... political authority . There is not , and never has been , a politically potent national voice that questions the docu- ment's status , that decries the Constitution as an old and burdensome inheritance . On the contrary , the very ...
... political life , but it is notable that they themselves seem sincerely to believe — however preposterously— that such an outcome is not merely consistent with , but actually re- quired , by the 1787 Constitution of the United States ...
... political inception ? It was on the anniversary of the Declaration , after all , that both Nat Turner and John Brown planned their radical attacks on slavery , that Walt Whitman chose as the date on which to publish his first edition of ...
... political interpretation — and to make it part of the increasingly capacious canon created by and for the academic discipline of English . Given this often extraordinary extension of the domain deemed appropriate to literary — or as it ...
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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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