The Rites of Identity : : The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison /

The Rites of Identity : : The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison / / Beth Eddy.

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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,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2004
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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