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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... conceive of language as such , for meaning is not in the word or in the relation between signifier and signified but , rather , in the passing through of that relation . A poetics as reading seeks to perform the pas- sage tweaking ...
... conceive of language as such , for meaning is not in the word or in the relation between signifier and signified but , rather , in the passing through of that relation . A poetics as reading seeks to perform the pas- sage tweaking ...
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... conception of language it employs . In this sense , my task is akin to that of Priscilla Wald in Constituting Americans , in terms of analyzing the " Official stories [ that ] constitute Americans ” ( 2 ) . “ Official stories are ...
... conception of language it employs . In this sense , my task is akin to that of Priscilla Wald in Constituting Americans , in terms of analyzing the " Official stories [ that ] constitute Americans ” ( 2 ) . “ Official stories are ...
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... conception of humanity can only begin in thought , which is in theological terms only possible east of Eden ... conceive it is derived from God's image . This double re- move suggests a certain negativity : that idealism and philosophy ...
... conception of humanity can only begin in thought , which is in theological terms only possible east of Eden ... conceive it is derived from God's image . This double re- move suggests a certain negativity : that idealism and philosophy ...
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... conceive justice in terms of money rather than human relations . In trying to build a national community economically , the law promotes a posses- sive individualism over the ethical individualism found in the covenant with God . Within ...
... conceive justice in terms of money rather than human relations . In trying to build a national community economically , the law promotes a posses- sive individualism over the ethical individualism found in the covenant with God . Within ...
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... conception of unity is productive for a cohesive sociality only in a metaphysical sense , and it is this metaphysical sense that enables the ontological being of a pluralized sociality . The appeal to God is an appeal to an absolute ...
... conception of unity is productive for a cohesive sociality only in a metaphysical sense , and it is this metaphysical sense that enables the ontological being of a pluralized sociality . The appeal to God is an appeal to an absolute ...
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