The Rites of Identity —— The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison

----- 身份仪式：肯尼思·伯克和拉尔夫·埃里森的宗教自然主义和文化批评

ISBN: 9780691092492 出版年：2009 页码：217 Eddy, Beth Princeton University Press

Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER ONE Identity and the Rites of Symbolic Action 1 CHAPTER TWO Kenneth Burke's Natural Pieties of Identity 25 CHAPTER THREE Catharsis and Tragedy: Kenneth Burke's Rhetoric of Sacrifice 57 CHAPTER FOUR The Spiritual Utility of Comedy 80 CHAPTER FIVE Ralph Ellison and the Vernacular Pieties of American Identity 99 CHAPTER SIX Ellison's Tragic Vision of Sacrifice 120 CHAPTER SEVEN The Blues of American Identity: Comic Transcendence in Ellison 139 CHAPTER EIGHT Both a Part of and Apart From: The Spirit and Ethics of a Religious Pragmatism 157 Notes 173 Bibliography 195 Index 199