Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 2005. gada 15. nov. - 204 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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... nature of the Convention's business must have seemed obvious to him . This is all the more striking when we return to his concluding speech at the Convention , not because the speech makes use of religious language or motifs . Quite the ...
... nature ; let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law ; and the shop , the plough , and the ledger , referred to the like cause by which light un- dulates and poets sing ; -and the word ...
... Nature , " " Experience " -none of these subjects so much as delimited by a Baconian “ Of . ” Consider , again , the figure of the circle which Emerson both accepts as the age - old sign of unity , totality , and completeness and at the ...
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Declarations of American Literary Independence | 57 |
Preserving the Revelation | 66 |
Preserving the Paradox | 78 |
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