The Rites of Identity: The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph EllisonPrinceton University Press, 10/01/2009 - 224 من الصفحات 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. |
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... live gracefully within those contemporary constraints, even while imagining and negotiating toward a bit more of what ought to be true about the same. These resources grew out of a culture aspiring to be democratic—one composed from the ...
... live, but out of my own “parochial preoccupation” to adopt what I've inherited and turn it to the critical evaluation of where I am in the attempt to brighten that corner a bit.8 Both Burke and Ellison highlight the unsung contribution ...
... lives; how we enact them in rituals, exhort acceptance of them with our rhetoric, and set the stage for them with our ... live in it. The world, they would both agree, is at least in part a product of the ways we write about it, dream it ...
... live again (if we live),” and steps into Pynchon's “Kabbalistic vision that he calls 'sado-anarchism.'”38 “Bloom rightly observes this as the step ”that Ellison is too humane and humanistic to have taken,39 “but he allows Pynchon's ...
... live in me for an instant, and I smiled with tear-stinging eyes. Then it was over, dead.”80 Knowing one's own identity depends upon knowing not only one's self rather well, but also the scene—the environment—outside the scope of ...
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