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Darsey, James Francis,

The prophetic tradition and radical rhetoric in America / James Darsey. - 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages)

Includes bibliographical references 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.

ISBN: 9780814720981 (e-book)

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