Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 2005年11月15日 - 192 頁 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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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 70 筆
... Literary Renaissance 6 Declarations of American Literary Independence 57 7 Preserving the Revelation 8 Preserving the Paradox 78 66 9 The Literary Renaissance of Secular Revelation 87 10 Essays in Time 97 A Poetic Form for Straying 11 ...
... 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.
... literary passion . Thanks also to Sarah Weber of Rare Books and Special Collections of Notre Dame University for her helpfulness in procuring the illustra- tions of the fugio cent from the Robert H. Gore Acknowledgments.
... literary masterpieces as Herman Melville's Moby - Dick , Walt Whit- man's Leaves of Grass , and the Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson re- quires a retelling of the story of the nation's peculiar founding , issuing in the Constitution as a ...
... literary — or as it is just as often now referred to , cultural — studies , what turns out to be a striking paucity of literary critical reference to America's founding document must come as some- thing of a puzzling surprise . 7 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 |
The Literary Renaissance of Secular Revelation | 87 |