Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 15/11/2005 - 192 páginas 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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... Beginning 2 The Path to Union 11 23 3 The People , Having Spoken , Speak 31 4 Almost a Miracle 39 5 The Paradox of Secular Revelation 49 II An American Literary Renaissance 6 Declarations of American Literary Independence 57 7 ...
... beginning both possible and desirable . But one might object from the start that it is not the Constitution that gave birth to the United States , but rather the Declaration of In- dependence . Is not that document of the Revolution ...
The Constitution of the United States and Classic American Literature Mitchell Meltzer. လ PART ONE The Constitution as a Secular Revelation Z CHAPTER ONE At the Beginning In the beginning all.
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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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