Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 2005 M11 15 - 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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... 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 secular revelation . The otherwise familiar narrative of the Constitution's ...
... Leaves of Grass , that Thoreau set out for his experiment in living on Walden Pond . With its ringing affirmations that " all men are created equal , " and their " unnalienable right to Life , Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness ...
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Contenido
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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