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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... discourse " ( 9 ) . " It is revelatory because the poetic function incarnates a concept of truth that escapes the definition by correspon- dence as well as the criteria of falsification and verification . Here truth no longer means ...
... discourse " ( 9 ) . " It is revelatory because the poetic function incarnates a concept of truth that escapes the definition by correspon- dence as well as the criteria of falsification and verification . Here truth no longer means ...
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... performed in law and politics . The legal system , and jurisprudence more generally , works within a closed discourse to produce the principles that allow for justice to 6 The Letter and the Spirit of 19th - Century American Literature.
... performed in law and politics . The legal system , and jurisprudence more generally , works within a closed discourse to produce the principles that allow for justice to 6 The Letter and the Spirit of 19th - Century American Literature.
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... discourse . If there are no terms in the discourse for translating the injustice , then within the system it is not one , which is perhaps the greatest injustice of all . Other domains which are open to multiple discourses and which ...
... discourse . If there are no terms in the discourse for translating the injustice , then within the system it is not one , which is perhaps the greatest injustice of all . Other domains which are open to multiple discourses and which ...
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... discourses of negative liberty and without rec- ognition of this unconscious theo - logos . Dismissing the theocratic ... discourse . These conflicts generate competing definitions of how to live in the tension between the ideal and the ...
... discourses of negative liberty and without rec- ognition of this unconscious theo - logos . Dismissing the theocratic ... discourse . These conflicts generate competing definitions of how to live in the tension between the ideal and the ...
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... discourse cannot or refuses to articulate , given the 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 ] ...
... discourse cannot or refuses to articulate , given the 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 ] ...
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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