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Darsey, James Francis.

The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America / James Darsey. - 1 online resource (279 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-267) and index.

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.

Open Access

ISBN: 9780814720981

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social problems--United States.
Prophecy--Social aspects--United States.
Radicalism--United States.
Rhetoric--Social aspects--United States.
English language--Rhetoric.--United States
Political oratory--Social aspects--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Social conditions--1980-

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN4055.U53 / D37 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 808.5/1/088329