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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... questions the docu- ment's status , that decries the Constitution as an old and burdensome inheritance . On the contrary , the very epithet , " unconstitutional , " con- tinues to bespeak an unquestioned and absolute standard of ...
... question it attempts to answer is not only who shall rule and by what 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 ...
... questions is the use of the word " dis- tinctive " to apply to a national literature . What would require a sus- tained argument to establish is here merely assumed — since the argu- ment is an old and familiar one — that whatever the ...
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Inhalt
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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