The Rhetoric of Redemption: Kenneth Burke's Redemption Drama and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'i Have a Dream' Speech

by David A. Bobbitt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742529282
• ISBN13: 9780742529281
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.2" x 8.9"