Title The prophetic tradition and radical rhetoric in America / James Darsey.

Publication Info.	New York : New York University Press, [1997]
	©1997

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PN4055.U53 D37 1997	Available	---

Description	xii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-267) and index.
Contents	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.
Subject	Political oratory -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Political oratory -- Social aspects.
	United States.
	Political oratory.
	Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Rhetoric -- Social aspects.
	Rhetoric.
	Radicalism -- United States.
	Radicalism.
	Prophecy -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Prophecy -- Social aspects.
	Prophecy.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
	Social problems -- United States.
	Social problems.
ISBN	0814718760 acid-free paper