The Rhetoric of Redemption: Kenneth Burke's Redemption Drama and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'i Have a Dream' Speech (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780742529281)

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech has become an icon of American public culture, its imagery and words profoundly influencing the civil rights debate. In The Rhetoric of Redemption Bobbitt applies Kenneth Burke's theory of guilt-purification-redemption in a close, critical analysis of the speech, developing and examining the implications of Burke's redemption drama in contemporary public discourse. He studies the impact of the speech over time, arguing that, while King's speech contains an inspirational vision of national redemption, it does so by omitting the real difficulties of overcoming America's racial divisions.

Author: David A. Bobbitt
ISBN-10: 0742529282
ISBN-13: 9780742529281
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2007
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.18w x 0.20d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 62