The prophetic tradition and radical rhetoric in America / James Darsey.
- Darsey, James Francis
- Date:
- [1997], ©1997
- Books
- Online
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Publication/Creation
New York : New York University Press, [1997], ©1997.
Physical description
xii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
Series
Contents
Radical rhetoric and American community : threnody for Sophrosyne -- Old Testament prophecy as radical ursprach -- Prophecy as sacred truth : self-evidence and righteousness in the American Revolution -- Prophecy as krisis : Wendell Phillips and the sin of slavery -- The prophet's call and his burden : the passion of Eugene V. Debs -- The word in darkness -- A vision of the apocalypse : Joe McCarthy's rhetoric of the fantastic -- Prophecy as poetry : the romantic vision of Robert Welch -- Secular argument and the language of commodity : gay liberation and merely civil rights -- The seraph and the snake.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-267) and index.
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