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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eddy, Beth, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ellison, Ralph > Knowledge > Religion.
Burke, Kenneth, > 1897-1993 > Knowledge > Religion.
Religion.
Criticism > United States > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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 a Religious Pragmatism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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