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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Eddy, Beth, 1955- Rites of identity. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2002044719 (OCoLC)51336362 |
Named Person: | Kenneth Burke; Ralph Ellison; Ralph Ellison; Kenneth Burke; Kenneth Burke; Ralph Ellison; Kenneth Burke; Ralph Ellison |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Beth Eddy |
ISBN: | 9781400825769 1400825768 9780691092492 0691092494 |
OCLC Number: | 436089327 |
Description: | 1 online resource (204 pages) |
Contents: | Identity and the rites of symbolic action -- Kenneth Burke's natural pieties of identity -- Catharsis and tragedy : Kenneth Burke's rhetoric of sacrifice -- The spiritual utility of comedy -- Ralph Ellison and the vernacular pieties of American identity -- Ellison's tragic vision of sacrifice -- The blues of American identity : comic transcendence in Ellison -- Both a part of and apart from : the spirit and ethics of religious pragmatism. |
Responsibility: | Beth Eddy. |
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"This is a rich, interesting, and lucidly argued study of the relations between Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison that draws out some of the significance of their relationship for reconceptualizing a de-theologized religious position. The author substantiates her claims with vigor and writes about her two authors with a very beguiling directness and clarity."-Giles Gunn, University of California, Santa Barbara "I wish that I had written this book. It is a study in religious naturalism that , in the end, is about the pieties and impieties entailed by the language that we use. It is the first book-length study of the relationship between Burke and Ellison and the only study that takes up questions of religious naturalism in their work."-William Hart, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Read more...


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- Burke, Kenneth, -- 1897-1993 -- Knowledge -- Religion.
- Ellison, Ralph -- Knowledge -- Religion.
- Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Religion.
- Burke, Kenneth, -- 1897-1993 -- Et la religion.
- Ellison, Ralph -- Et la religion.
- Critique -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
- Burke, Kenneth, -- 1897-1993
- Ellison, Ralph.
- Criticism.
- United States.