It was first by means of publication that America declared to the world its identity as a nation and trough an effect of discourse that she defined proclaimed and projected its past, its present and its future. With the help of Guttenberg's invention of the printing press, the identity of America was defined in many Puritan literatures. The printing press and the colonized America's identity which was contained in Puritan literatures became the means in awakening the minds of many Americans, providing them with vision of the new world and breaking out from the colony of the British rule. These visions, according to the Puritanism: A New World Vision online article, are embedded in the following elements.

The imaginary projection...

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Puritanism: A New World Vision. http://www.skyminds.net/lit_us/02_puritanism.php

Literature. http://www.usembassy.dk/IntroUS/ArtsCulture/Literature.htm