The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison
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Verlag: De Gruyter
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Acknowledgments xi
CHAPTER ONE
Identity and the Rites of Symbolic Action 1
CHAPTER TWO
Kenneth Burke's Natural Pieties of Identity 25
CHAPTER THREE
Catharsis and Tragedy: Kenneth Burke's Rhetoric of Sacrifice 57
CHAPTER FOUR
The Spiritual Utility of Comedy 80
CHAPTER FIVE
Ralph Ellison and the Vernacular Pieties of American Identity 99
CHAPTER SIX
Ellison's Tragic Vision of Sacrifice 120
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Blues of American Identity: Comic Transcendence in Ellison 139
CHAPTER EIGHT
Both a Part of and Apart From: The Spirit and Ethics of a Religious Pragmatism 157
Notes 173
Bibliography 195
Index 199