The Rites of Identity: The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph EllisonPrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 224 páginas 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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... become identified with groups more or less at odds with one another. Why “at odds,” you may ask, when the titular term is “identification”? Because to begin with “identification” is, by the same token though roundabout, to confront the ...
... becomes both their strength and their weakness. He attempts to develop a “prosaic” criticism for poetic religion: “[A]ll the resources of prose thought must be developed in order that the poetic can be given its only genuine safeguards ...
... becomes analogous to the work of the priest; in [writers'] failures the poet and critic observe the religious mystery at the center of language.”34 Burke, in his later writings, does not try to “valorize literary language.”35 He ...
... become a troubling goal. Burke and Ellison owe some of their critical leverage on Emerson to Santayana. Along with Emerson, James, and other Americans that stand out, the ambivalently American philosopher of religion George Santayana ...
... become more apparent with the fuller examination of his work. The false discontinuities of “conversion” struck both men as disingenuous. The conversion metaphor inherited from Emerson they both will use, but to ends that highlight all ...
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