The Rhetoric of Redemption: Kenneth Burke's Redemption Drama and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2004 - 141 էջ
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech has become an icon of American public culture, its imagery and words profoundly influencing the civil rights debate. In The Rhetoric of Redemption Bobbitt applies Kenneth Burke's theory of guilt-purification-redemption in a close, critical analysis of the speech, developing and examining the implications of Burke's redemption drama in contemporary public discourse. He studies the impact of the speech over time, arguing that, while King's speech contains an inspirational vision of national redemption, it does so by omitting the real difficulties of overcoming America's racial divisions.
 

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Context and Critical Methodologies
1
Agent and Scene
11
Act The Redemption of the Audiences Guilt
27
Purification and Redemption
41
Metaphoric Analysis
63
Evaluation of the Theory of GuiltPurificationRedemption
87
Evaluation of I Have a Dream and Its Legacy
101
Conclusion
123
References
127
Index
137
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David A. Bobbitt is associate professor of communication at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia.

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