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1 online resource (204 pages) |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 fictio |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993 -- Knowledge -- Religion
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Ellison, Ralph -- Knowledge -- Religion
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| SUBJECT |
Ellison, Ralph -- Knowledge -- Religion
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Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993 -- Knowledge -- Religion
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Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993 fast |
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Ellison, Ralph fast |
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Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Religion.
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Religion
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religion (discipline)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Criticism
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Religion
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United States
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400825769 |
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1400825768 |
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9780691092492 |
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0691092494 |
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