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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... seem sincerely to believe — however preposterously— that such an outcome is not merely consistent with , but actually re- quired , by the 1787 Constitution of the United States . One could perhaps argue that this is an overstatement of ...
... People . Thus it would seem only a reasonable assumption that the relation between the United States Constitution and American literature has been extensively examined . This assumption is only strengthened by 4 Secular Revelations •
... seems as if the relative meagerness of comment about the larger cultural force of the Constitution is not , in fact , limited to the realm of literary study ; the puzzle is a more general one / Consider the testimony of two scholars who ...
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Índice
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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