Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 15.11.2005 - 192 Seiten 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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... means alone . What I will argue is that a secular revelation is indeed self - contradictory , but only in the sense that any paradox involves a self - contradiction , for that is what the Constitution is — a profound , living paradox ...
... means — the question raised by the victory of the Revolution — but how to begin from a blankness , how to estab- lish a new identity , how to consciously found a civilizational life without an inhibiting arbitrariness . In the ordinary ...
... means were all of their inhabitants British — of the North Amer- ican mainland . The third term that may raise questions is the use of the word " dis- tinctive " to apply to a national literature . What would require a sus- tained ...
... mean utterly different . Differences and similarities are matters of degree only ; but it is precisely that degree which is of interest . လ PART ONE The Constitution as a Secular Revelation Z Introduction : The Constitution and ...
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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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