Modern Jeremiahs

Contemporary Visions of American Decline

von Mark Stephen Jendrysik

204 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book identifies where modern Jeremiahs place the sources of national decline and their purposed solutions and its analysis also reveals the central problem faced by this form of writing: the need to balance condemnation of certain practices within the democratic polity with calls for repentance. For these writers and political actors, the tensions created by these demands prove impossible to resolve, as the modern jeremiad further divides an already divided nation.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9780739121924
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2008
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Lexington Books