A fresh, original history of America's national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram ...Van Engen shows how the phrase "City on a Hill," from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthrop's speech, its changing status throughout time, and its use in modern politics, Van Engen asks us to reevaluate our national narratives. He tells the story of curators, librarians, collectors, archivists, antiquarians, and often anonymous figures who emphasized the role of the Pilgrims and Puritans in American history, paving the way for the saving and sanctifying of a single sermon. This sermon's rags-to-riches rise reveals the way national stories take shape and shows us how those tales continue to influence competing visions of the country-the many different meanings of America that emerge from its literary past.
It is widely agreed that Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in the history of thought. But how did he manage this seminal ...accomplishment? In this book, Benjamin Folit-Weinberg finally provides an answer. At the heart of this story is the image of the hodos, the road and the journey. Brilliantly deploying the tools and insights of literary criticism, conceptual history, and archaeology, Folit-Weinberg illuminates how Parmenides adopts and adapts this image from Homer, especially the Odyssey, forging from it his pioneering intellectual approaches. Reinserting Parmenides into the physical world and poetic culture of archaic Greece, Folit-Weinberg reveals both how deeply traditional and how radical was Parmenides' new way of thinking and speaking. By taking this first step toward providing a history of the concept method, this volume uncovers the genealogy of philosophy in poetry and poetic imagery.
In Enthusiasms and Loyalties Keith Grant draws on a fascinating range of archival sources from Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, during the years 1770-1850 to explore a diversity of public feelings, ...from disaffected Loyalists and unfeeling enthusiasts, as well as passionate patriots and ecstatic revivalists, in the revolutionary and Enlightenment Atlantic.
Contemporary continental thought is marked by a move away from
the "linguistic turn" in twentieth-century European philosophy, as
new materialisms and ontologies seek to leave behind the thinking
of ...language central to poststructuralism as it has been
traditionally understood. At the same time, biopolitical philosophy
has brought critical attention to the question of life, examining
new formations of life and death. Within this broader turn,
Derridean deconstruction, with its apparent focus on language,
writing, and textuality, is generally set aside. This book, by
contrast, shows the continued relevance of deconstruction for
contemporary thought's engagement with resolutely material issues
and with matters of life and the living. Trumbull elaborates
Derrida's thinking of life across his work, specifically his
recasting of life as "life death," and in turn, survival or living
on. Derrida's activation of Freud, Trumbull shows, is central to
this problematic and its consequences, especially deconstruction's
ethical and political possibilities. The book traces how Derrida's
early treatment of Freud and his mobilization of Freud's death
drive allow us to grasp the deconstructive thought of life as
constitutively exposed to death, the logic subsequently
rearticulated in the notion of survival. Derrida's recasting of
life as survival, Trumbull demonstrates, allows deconstruction to
destabilize inherited understandings of life, death, and the
political, including the dominant configurations of sovereignty and
the death penalty.
The new standards and changes exist in social science studies. Covid 19, especially in Indonesia, at the end of 2019, has an impact on changes in every sector of life. This change is a form of ...community adaptation. Therefore, this conference aims to explore theoretical and practical developments of the social sciences, to build academic networks while gathering academics from various research institutes and universities. This book provides the new standard and encourages many thoughts in theoretical and empirical studies in the social field. The scope that can be generated in this standard includes patterns, opportunities, and challenges in social science, learning to new standards, learning innovation, and implementing new learning standards in Indonesia, which was adopted in the form of the Merdeka Belajar program. The study results will fill the gaps in knowledge in the new social life and social science. Therefore, this book aims to mediate the researchers in the same field to discuss and find solutions to current issues in the social field and build cooperation and synergy in creative ideas to work together to create joint research. This book will be interesting to students, scholars, and practitioners who have a deep concern in social science. It is futuristic with a lot of practical insights for the students, faculty, and practitioners. Since the contributors are from across the globe, it is fascinating to see the global benchmarks.
The intention of this article is to study the theme of the sea in the literary tradition (mainly poetical tradition) of the (francophone) Antilles, and in the work of an author from the Reunion ...Island (Indic Ocean), Alain Lorraine. Identical themes become relevant, inspired from the colonial past and slavery. Violence and evil are present. The remembrance of the Discovery (in the case of the Antilles) is also very clear. But there is also a message of hope, as if the promise of freedom was inherent to the maritime space.
Drawing on new media scholarship, the article suggests that Percival Everett’s poetry can be understood through the lens of hypergraphical knowledge. In this context, Everett’s poetry operates as a ...synchronic and diachronic exploration of poetic movements, genres, forms, and inheritances, embodying network-temporal relations similar to the hypernarrator(s) of his fiction. Ultimately, this analysis observes the expansive and cohesive nature of Everett’s work, inviting readers to refocus their attention on the indeterminate surface of, and the intricate web of meaning in his poetry.
Hellenistic poets of the third and second centuries BC were concerned with the need both to mark their continuity with the classical past and to demonstrate their independence from it. In this ...revised and expanded 2005 translation of Muse e modelli: la poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto, Greek poetry of the third and second centuries BC and its reception and influence at Rome are explored allowing both sides of this literary practice to be appreciated. Genres as diverse as epic and epigram are considered from a historical perspective, in the full range of their deep-level structures, providing a different perspective on the poetry and its influence at Rome. Some of the most famous poetry of the age such as Callimachus' Aitia and Apollonius' Argonautica is examined. In addition, full attention is paid to the poetry of encomium, in particular the newly published epigrams of Posidippus, and Hellenistic poetics, notably Philodemus.
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