The Constitution Of Literature
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Author |
: Lee Morrissey |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804757860 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804757867 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Constitution of Literature by : Lee Morrissey
The Constitution of Literature examines Restoration and eighteenth-century literary criticism as a debate over theories of reading and argues that literary criticism emerged as a reaction against the role associated with print in the English Civil Wars of the 1640s.
Author |
: Stephanie Elsky |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2020-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192605849 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192605844 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature by : Stephanie Elsky
Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers. Custom took on so much power because of its virtual synonymity with English common law, the increasingly dominant legal system that was also foundational to England's constitutionalist politics. The strange temporality assigned to legal custom, that is, its purported existence since 'time immemorial', furnished it with a unique and paradoxical capacity—to make new and foreign forms familiar. This volume shows that during a time when novelty was suspect, even insurrectionary, appeals to the widespread understanding of custom as a legal concept justified a startling array of fictive experiments. This is the first book to reveal fully the relationship between Renaissance literature and legal custom. It shows how writers were able to reimagine moments of historical and cultural rupture as continuity by appealing to the powerful belief that English legal custom persisted in the face of conquests by foreign powers. Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature thus challenges scholarly narratives in which Renaissance art breaks with a past it looks back upon longingly and instead argues that the period viewed its literature as imbued with the aura of the past. In this way, through experiments in rhetoric and form, literature unfolds the processes whereby custom gains its formidable and flexible political power. Custom, a key concept of legal and constitutionalist thought, shaped sixteenth-century literature, while this literature, in turn, transformed custom into an evocative mythopoetic.
Author |
: Garrett Epps |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2013-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199974740 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199974748 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Epic by : Garrett Epps
"The United States is the only nation in the world in which political leaders, judges and soldiers all swear allegiance not to a king or a people but to a document, the Constitution. The Constitution today, however, is much revered but little read. . Readers of AMERICAN EPIC will never think of the Constitution in quite the same way again. Garrett Epps, a legal scholar who is also a journalist and writer of prize-winning fiction, takes readers on a literary tour of the Constitution, finding in it much that is interesting, puzzling, praiseworthy, and sometimes hilarious. Reading the Constitution like a literary work yields a host of meanings that shed new light on what it means to be an American"--
Author |
: Jerome B. Agel |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 1991-03-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0399513051 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780399513053 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The U.S. Constitution for Everyone by : Jerome B. Agel
History comes alive in this illustrated guide to the Constitution and all 27 Amendments. The Constitution has been in the news a lot recently. But most of us could probably use a refresher on this founding document of America--you can probably name the first and second amendments, but what about the 11th, or the 22nd? And what does all of that formal political language actually mean for us today? The U.S. Constitution for Everyone answers these questions and more, like: - How does impeachment work, anyway? - How long is a Senator's term? - What is covered by "freedom of speech"? - What are "emoluments"? - How exactly does a bill become a law? This book makes understanding your rights easy with clear explanations of the complete text of the U.S. Constitution, as well as all 27 Amendments, alongside fascinating historical facts and explanations. A must-read for students, curious citzens, and everyone who'd like to know more about the supreme laws of our nation.
Author |
: Mitchell MELTZER |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674040946 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674040945 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Secular Revelations by : Mitchell MELTZER
The United States Constitution is a quintessentially political document. Yet, until now, no one has seriously considered the formative influence of this document on American cultural life. In this ambitious book, Mitchell Meltzer demonstrates the extent to which the Constitution is both source and inspiration for America's greatest literary masterworks.
Author |
: Sol Bloom |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2013-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1258957043 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781258957049 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Story of the Constitution by : Sol Bloom
This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
Author |
: George Thomas |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2008-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801888526 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801888522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Madisonian Constitution by : George Thomas
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Author |
: Jaroslav Pelikan |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2008-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300130768 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300130767 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution by : Jaroslav Pelikan
Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of “Great Code,” but each of these important texts is controversial as well as enigmatic. They are asked to speak to situations that their authors could not have anticipated on their own. In this book, one of our greatest religious historians brings his vast knowledge of the history of biblical interpretation to bear on the question of constitutional interpretation. Jaroslav Pelikan compares the methods by which the official interpreters of the Bible and the Constitution—the Christian Church and the Supreme Court, respectively—have approached the necessity of interpreting, and reinterpreting, their important texts. In spite of obvious differences, both texts require close, word-by-word exegesis, an awareness of opinions that have gone before, and a willingness to ask new questions of old codes, Pelikan observes. He probes for answers to the question of what makes something authentically “constitutional” or “biblical,” and he demonstrates how an understanding of either biblical interpretation or constitutional interpretation can illuminate the other in important ways.
Author |
: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 421 |
Release |
: 2016-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317397014 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317397010 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature by : Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
This volume focuses on the (de)canonization processes in children’s literature, considering the construction and cultural-historical changes of canons in different children’s literatures. Chapters by international experts in the field explore a wide range of different children’s literatures from Great Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as from Non-European countries such as Australia, Israel, and the United States. Situating the inquiry within larger literary and cultural studies conversations about canonicity, the contributors assess representative authors and works that have encountered changing fates in the course of canon history. Particular emphasis is given to sociological canon theories, which have so far been under-represented in canon research in children’s literature. The volume therefore relates historical changes in the canon of children’s literature not only to historical changes in concepts of childhood but to more encompassing political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological shifts. This volume’s comparative approach takes cognizance of the fact that, if canon formation is an important cultural factor in nation-building processes, a comparative study is essential to assessing transnational processes in canon formation. This book thus renders evident the structural similarities between patterns and strategies of canon formation emerging in different children’s literatures.
Author |
: Akhil Reed Amar |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 816 |
Release |
: 2021-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465096367 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465096360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Words That Made Us by : Akhil Reed Amar
A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with weighty questions in the halls of government and in the pages of newspapers. Should the nation's borders be expanded? Should America allow slavery to spread westward? What rights should Indian nations hold? What was the proper role of the judicial branch? In The Words that Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered. His account of the document's origins and consolidation is a guide for anyone seeking to properly understand America's Constitution today.