2019
Lincoln's Miniature Bible : Performing Sacred History in the Gettysburg Address
SMITH, Jeffrey AlanZákladní údaje
Originální název
Lincoln's Miniature Bible : Performing Sacred History in the Gettysburg Address
Autoři
SMITH, Jeffrey Alan (840 Spojené státy, garant, domácí)
Vydání
Brno Studies in English, Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2019, 0524-6881
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
60206 Specific literatures
Stát vydavatele
Česká republika
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14210/19:00117002
Organizační jednotka
Filozofická fakulta
Klíčová slova anglicky
Abraham Lincoln; Gettysburg Address; American Civil War; Bible; Christianity; political rhetoric; WaltWhitman; William H. Herndon
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 31. 3. 2021 21:21, Mgr. Zuzana Matulíková
Anotace
V originále
Analysts of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address have noted its reliance on religious and liturgicallanguage and motifs, but have not fully recognized the intricate way in which is mimics the Bible, replicatingthe "U-shape" of "type" and "antitype" that Northrop Frye and others have identified as the structuringprinciple of Christian Scripture. Elaborating this schema with remarkable care, Lincoln in effect re-createssacred or "salvation" history in miniature, casting the ephemeral words and event of the moment as the focalpoint of human destiny. The resulting dialectical tension, which counterposes the fleeting or disposable to theprofoundly important, refutes – but was also carried forward – in the popular legend that the address washastily written on the back of an envelope. In other instructive ways, too, it helped to generate the mythicmeanings that Americans have attached both to the address and to Lincoln himself.
Návaznosti
MUNI/A/1003/2017, interní kód MU |
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