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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... Secular revelations : the Constitution of the United States and classic American literature / Mitchell Meltzer . p . cm . Includes index . ISBN 0-674-01912-1 ( alk . paper ) 1. American literature - 19th century - History and criticism ...
... Secular Revelation 1 At the 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 ...
... to Narrative 111 125 13 Confidence and the Darkness of Revelation 144 Conclusion : The Literary Art of Uniting States 156 Notes 165 Index 189 Acknowledgments Writing may be a solitary activity , but making viii Contents.
... secular revelation . The otherwise familiar narrative of the Constitution's framing will here take as its focus the problem most clearly articulated by Hannah Arendt in her study of Revolution as " the most elementary predica- ment ...
... secular revelation . The idea is self- contradictory , for the secular can be defined as precisely that which is not revealed , just as a revelation is what we would not know by secular means alone . What I will argue is that a secular ...
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 |
189 | |
The Literary Renaissance of Secular Revelation | 87 |
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