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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: The constitutional narrative plays perhaps a surprisingly important role in American society. It claims to unfold present judgment from past precedent, according to the doctrine of stare decisis, given an...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This essay explores the suggestion that many American narratives are supplementary, correcting narratives--alternatives to the main story on offer. The guiding thought is that of Henry James's "possible other...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the seventeenth century, North America was conceived by Europeans as an escape from Europe, a New Found Land for religious separatism and the aggregation of unspoken-for wealth. It was in this era of colonial...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Nearly four centuries of American history have witnessed the evolving conflict between two competing sets of values: a belief that acting on behalf of the common good should guide social and political...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSome countries have a master narrative, some not. Those that do are expected to live up to its demands, or incur the shame of neglecting them. Countries too recent or too disheveled to have such a narrative generally...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Seven years after 9/11, the American way of life was again shaken to its foundation by the Great Recession of 2008. The logic of an unregulated market economy produced its predetermined result. The American...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Throughout its history, the United States has been a major site for the accommodation of Protestant Christianity with the Enlightenment. This accommodation has been driven by two closely related but distinct...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: The Broadway musical is an excellent prism for viewing the narrative of American life--as it is, has been, and perhaps should be. In the first part of the twentieth century, musicals viewed life through...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Anglo-American westward expansion provided a major impulse to the development of the young United States' narrative tradition. Early U.S. writers also looked to the South, that is, to the Spanish New World...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: The old law of domestic relations and the system known as coverture have shaped marriage practices in the United States and have limited women's membership in the constitutional community. This system of law...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: America has always been a wonderfully diverse place, a country where billions of stories spanning centuries and continents converge under the rubric of a Constitution that unites them in an ongoing narrative...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: The blending of oral traditions, visual arts, and music has influenced how Southern writers shape their region's narrative voice. In the South, writing and storytelling intersect. Mark Twain introduced readers...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This essay examines the notion of an American narrative, looking at a variety of myths that have been prominent and that have, in various ways, shaped the concept of a nation devoted to Enlightenment and...