The rites of identity: the religious naturalism and cultural criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison
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...
| 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 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198) and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (204 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0-691-09249-4 1-4008-2576-8 978-0-691-09249-2 978-1-4008-2576-9 |
