The Rites of Identity : : The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison / / Beth Eddy.
The Rites of Identity argues that Kenneth Burke was the most deciding influence on Ralph Ellison's writings, that Burke and Ellison are firmly situated within the American tradition of religious naturalism, and that this tradition--properly understood as religious--offers a highly useful means...
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Eddy, Beth, author. The Rites of Identity : The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison / Beth Eddy. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2004 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Identity and the Rites of Symbolic Action -- CHAPTER TWO. Kenneth Burke's Natural Pieties of Identity -- CHAPTER THREE. Catharsis and Tragedy: Kenneth Burke's Rhetoric of Sacrifice -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Spiritual Utility of Comedy -- CHAPTER FIVE. Ralph Ellison and the Vernacular Pieties of American Identity -- CHAPTER SIX. Ellison's Tragic Vision of Sacrifice -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Blues of American Identity: Comic Transcendence in Ellison -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Both a Part of and Apart From: The Spirit and Ethics of a Religious Pragmatism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Rites of Identity argues that Kenneth Burke was the most deciding influence on Ralph Ellison's writings, that Burke and Ellison are firmly situated within the American tradition of religious naturalism, and that this tradition--properly understood as religious--offers a highly useful means for considering contemporary identity and mitigating religious conflict. Beth Eddy adds Burke and Ellison to a tradition of religious naturalism that traces back to Ralph Waldo Emerson but received its most nuanced expression in the work of George Santayana. Through close readings of the essays and fiction of Burke and Ellison, Eddy shows the extent to which their cultural criticisms are intertwined. Both offer a naturalized understanding of piety, explore the psychological and social dynamics of scapegoating, and propose comic religious resources. And both explicitly connect these religious categories to identity, be it religious, racial, national, ethnic, or gendered. Eddy--arguing that the most socially damaging uses of religious language and ritual are connected to the best uses that such language has to offer--finds in Burke and Ellison ways to manage this precarious situation and to mitigate religious violence through wise use of performative symbolic action. By placing Burke and Ellison in a tradition of pragmatic thought, The Rites of Identity uncovers an antiessentialist approach to identity that serves the moral needs of a world that is constantly negotiating, performing, and ritualizing changes of identity. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Criticism United States History 20th century. Religion. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691092492 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400825769 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400825769.jpg |
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Eddy, Beth, The Rites of Identity : The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison / Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Identity and the Rites of Symbolic Action -- CHAPTER TWO. Kenneth Burke's Natural Pieties of Identity -- CHAPTER THREE. Catharsis and Tragedy: Kenneth Burke's Rhetoric of Sacrifice -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Spiritual Utility of Comedy -- CHAPTER FIVE. Ralph Ellison and the Vernacular Pieties of American Identity -- CHAPTER SIX. Ellison's Tragic Vision of Sacrifice -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Blues of American Identity: Comic Transcendence in Ellison -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Both a Part of and Apart From: The Spirit and Ethics of a Religious Pragmatism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Identity and the Rites of Symbolic Action -- CHAPTER TWO. Kenneth Burke's Natural Pieties of Identity -- CHAPTER THREE. Catharsis and Tragedy: Kenneth Burke's Rhetoric of Sacrifice -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Spiritual Utility of Comedy -- CHAPTER FIVE. Ralph Ellison and the Vernacular Pieties of American Identity -- CHAPTER SIX. Ellison's Tragic Vision of Sacrifice -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Blues of American Identity: Comic Transcendence in Ellison -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Both a Part of and Apart From: The Spirit and Ethics of a Religious Pragmatism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Identity and the Rites of Symbolic Action -- CHAPTER TWO. Kenneth Burke's Natural Pieties of Identity -- CHAPTER THREE. Catharsis and Tragedy: Kenneth Burke's Rhetoric of Sacrifice -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Spiritual Utility of Comedy -- CHAPTER FIVE. Ralph Ellison and the Vernacular Pieties of American Identity -- CHAPTER SIX. Ellison's Tragic Vision of Sacrifice -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Blues of American Identity: Comic Transcendence in Ellison -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Both a Part of and Apart From: The Spirit and Ethics of a Religious Pragmatism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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