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Author Darsey, James Francis, author.

Title The prophetic tradition and radical rhetoric in America / James Darsey.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [1997]
1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages)
text rdacontent
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Political oratory -- Social aspects -- United States.
English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.
Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States.
Radicalism -- United States.
Prophecy -- Social aspects -- United States.
Social problems -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Darsey, James Francis. Prophetic tradition and radical rhetoric in America. New York : New York University Press, [1997] xii, 279 pages ; 24 cm. 9780814718766 (DLC) 97004772
ISBN 0814718760 (acid-free paper)
9780814718766
9780814720981 (e-book)

 
    
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