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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... words , how can human beings , absent the sanction of some transcendent or mythical realm , lay a secure and durable foundation for political life ? A higher , more - than - human sanction — whether the source of such authority derives ...
... words , " We the People " —notably not We the New Yorkers and the Virginians and the Georgians , et cetera ; nor We the People of the sov- ereign states — these words do not merely invoke the People , they very nearly create it . It is ...
... word , the constitutional — as a way of understanding many of the most familiar and venerable insights into this now long - studied subject . I use three terms throughout this work that require brief preliminary clarification ...
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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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Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-century America Dana Luciano Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |