Letter and the Spirit of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Justice, Politics, TheologyMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 12/01/2005 - 304 páginas Moving back to the trial of Anne Hutchinson in Puritan Massachusetts and the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson in order to analyse theo-political signification, Loebel provides a new context for examining the politically performative function of language in such texts as "The Scarlet Letter," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and "Waiting for the Verdict." He also argues, however, that a specific theo-logic manifests itself in the political rhetoric of the nation, such that the afterlife of the "New Jerusalem" resonates not just in the "Blessings of Liberty" enshrined in the Constitution but also in the shift from a religious understanding of union with Jesus to that of the Union of States as a nation. Loebel compares unionist and confederate discourse, opening up new ways of theorising representation as a political, theological, legal, and literary issue that has continued currency both in twentieth-century literature and in the political discourse of America's global vision, such as the "axis of evil" and the "new world order." Anyone interested in American literature and culture will view the relationship between ethics and justice differently after reading this book. |
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... comes to be because of a metaphysical relation between the one and the other in the constitution of Being . Prior to the ontological categorization of the other - prior , that is , to recognizing anyone as different from the self- is ...
... comes to be because of a metaphysical relation between the one and the other in the constitution of Being . Prior to the ontological categorization of the other - prior , that is , to recognizing anyone as different from the self- is ...
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... comes to cover the fact that " might " also creates “ right ” in the political terms it requires . Northern military victory allowed for Lincoln's unionist - republican reading of The Letter and the Spirit of 19th - Century American ...
... comes to cover the fact that " might " also creates “ right ” in the political terms it requires . Northern military victory allowed for Lincoln's unionist - republican reading of The Letter and the Spirit of 19th - Century American ...
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... comes by way of thinking about the promotion of plurality and equalization of minorities inherent in confederate - de- mocracy in terms of the discourses of contemporary identity politics and the self as a confederacy of difference ...
... comes by way of thinking about the promotion of plurality and equalization of minorities inherent in confederate - de- mocracy in terms of the discourses of contemporary identity politics and the self as a confederacy of difference ...
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... comes to allegorize the contemporary scene of a multicul- tural America whose vehicle of representation is still predominantly unionist , while its goals are predominantly confederate . This mismatch causes more tension and conflict ...
... comes to allegorize the contemporary scene of a multicul- tural America whose vehicle of representation is still predominantly unionist , while its goals are predominantly confederate . This mismatch causes more tension and conflict ...
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... comes by way of the substitu- tion of the living Word for the death of the Son . Such is the process of revelation . It effects a kind of transubstantiation or transference of life from the body to the Word . At the crossroads of this ...
... comes by way of the substitu- tion of the living Word for the death of the Son . Such is the process of revelation . It effects a kind of transubstantiation or transference of life from the body to the Word . At the crossroads of this ...
Índice
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How to Avoid Speaking the Name of the Father | 62 |
UnionistRepublican and ConfederateDemocratic Narratives | 99 |
Uncle Toms Cabin and the Ethical Critique of Justice | 127 |
5 Exodus Politics and the Redemption of Difference | 172 |
Advocacy and Others Voices | 217 |
Confederate Democracy and the NonInDifferent Constitution | 245 |
Notes | 257 |
Works Cited | 273 |
Index | 289 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
according African American alterity Anne Hutchinson annunciation Antinomian argue articulated becomes biblical body Cable Calvin Ellis Stowe captivity Christ Christian confederate confederate-democratic congregationalism Constitution construction context conversion covenant Creoles cultural democracy difference Dimmesdale discourse divine emancipation enables equality ethical Exodus faith father feminine figure Frowenfeld function God's Grandissimes H.B. Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe Hebrew Bible Hester human language identity individual interpretation issues Jesus Jews judgment justice Levinas Liberia liberty logic magistrates male Mary Rowlandson masculinity material meaning ment ministers narrative nation one's particular performance persons plurality political position possibility promote Puritan question racial radical reading Reconstruction redemption relation rendered represent representation revelation rhetoric Rowlandson Scarlet Letter sense sentiment signifies slavery slaves social Sojourner Truth soul speak speech spirit Stowe's structure suggests temporal theological thing tion translation Uncle Tom's Cabin understanding union unionist unionist-republican voice woman women word writing