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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... character can and should act in both pious and impious ways. Morally speaking, they claim that we need to be both pious poets and impious critics. They show us how a “both/ and” heritage of thinking can ethically serve us better than an ...
... character if they intend to survive. But this character is not the passive acceptance of a traditional role. The sort of character Burke and Ellison aim for requires active rather than passive virtue. Active virtue is dramatic. It is ...
... character, but “character” here means something like “character” in a novel.30 These constantly reevaluated habits culminate in actions whose end is the repair and maintenance of democratic culture. In particular, Burke and Ellison give ...
... character. Neither Burke nor Ellison held much truck with starting anew or with conversion metaphors. Ellison does write: “The American creed of democratic equality encourages the belief in a second chance that is to be achieved by ...
... character in Ellison's short story “A Song of Innocence,” explains the phenomenon: “They say that folks misuse words, but I see it the other way around, words misuse people. Usually when you think you're saying what you mean you're ...
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