ISBN: 0300017545
Author: Sacvan Bercovitch
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press; 1st edition (October 23, 1975)
Pages: 264
Category: Americas
Subcategory: History
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But what Dr. Frank describes as the central psychodynamic of megalomania is also the source of our resistance to change.
Start by marking The Puritan Origins of the American Self as Want to Read . A brave and brilliant boo. hat is the most significant and far-reaching contribution to the theory of American literature in recent years.
Start by marking The Puritan Origins of the American Self as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. A study which reaches with daring ease from the Bible and Augustine to Emerson and Whitma. ffers an agenda for the next several decades of scholarly work on colonial religious studies. - John F. Wilson, Theology Today. asts a dazzling light on the myth of America and the conundrums of individuality and community that are the core of the American character.
Bercovitch's early books, The Puritan Origins of the American Self and The American Jeremiad (along with . Bercovitch work during this time has been criticized with overlooking the spiritual and moral value of the Puritans.
Bercovitch work during this time has been criticized with overlooking the spiritual and moral value of the Puritans. This points to the central aspect of his approach: the Puritan legacy as a rhetorical model of cultural continuity.
Sacvan Bercovitch, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University, presents in this important book . This is the single most important study of the formation of "America"-its culture, history and literature. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University, presents in this important book an analysis of what he refers to as the "rhetoric of American identity" through the "sources of our obsessive concern with the meaning of America" (p. ix). He uses one central case study to explore this issue, "Nehemias Americanus," Cotton Mather's biography of John Winthrop, first published in 1702.
The issuing of The Puritan Origins of the American Self, with a fascinating new preface by Sacvan Bercovitch, is an occasion for celebration
The issuing of The Puritan Origins of the American Self, with a fascinating new preface by Sacvan Bercovitch, is an occasion for celebration. A landmark contribution to American studies, the book is also a model, still vital and generative after many years, for any attempt to analyze the ideological dream-life upon which nations are founded. Bercovitch has an uncanny ability to be at once knowing and innocent, a sophisticated master of the textual archive and a wide-eyed stranger, like Kafka’s Max Rossmann, amazed by what he is witnessing on the shores of the New World.
That belief, according to Sacvan Bercovitch of Columbia University, is an all but . Some of the difficulty is unavoidable.
That belief, according to Sacvan Bercovitch of Columbia University, is an all but exclusive legacy of New England Puritanism, and its genesis is the crux of this fascinating, erudite but needlessly difficult book. For Bercovitch approaches his subject indirectly, by means of an uncompromisingly technical, close (often microscopic) examination of Puritan rhetoric. His sort of intensive textual analysis is enough, I realize, to limit his audience to specialists, but an unfortunate taste for polysyllabic theological terms creates an almost impenetrable aura.
-Jack P. Greene, History The most valuable achievement in colonial American literature since the best work of Perry Miller. David Levin, William and Mary Quarterly A brave and brilliant boo. hat is the most significant and far-reaching contribution to the theory of American. Literature in recent years.
Published by: Yale University Press. "-Jack P. Greene,History. The most valuable achievement in colonial American literature since the best work of Perry Miller. -David Levin,William and Mary Quarterly.
This book has been cited by the following publications. The Puritan Origins of the American Self. ed. The American Puritan Imagination: Essays in Revaluation. This list is generated based on data provided by CrossRef. van Elteren, Mel 2002. Yale University Press, 1975. Cambridge University Press, 1974. Typology and Early American Literature. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1972.
For the seventeenth-century Puritan, exemplum fidei denoted a type of Christ; and what he meant by type pertained equally to biography and to history. In its original form, typology was a hermeneutical mode connecting the Old Testament to the New in terms of the life of Jesus. It interpreted the Israelite saints, individually, and the progress of Israel, collectively, as a foreshadowing of the gospel revelation.
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