Martin Luther King, Jr., and the sermonic power of public discourse

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Author:

Calloway-Thomas, Carolyn, 1943-

ISBN:

9780817352837

Publication Information:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1993, [i.e., 2005].

Physical Description:

ix, 246 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Alabama as Egypt : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the religion of slaves / Keith D. Miller -- The American dilemma in King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / E. Culpepper Clark -- Reconstruction of the rhetorical situation in "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / Judith D. Hoover -- Covenanted rights : the metaphoric matrix of "I have a dream" / Martha Solomon -- Universalizing "equality" : the public legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. / John Louis Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit -- "I have a dream" : the performance of theology fused with the power of orality / John H. Patton -- When "Silence is betrayal" : an ethical criticism of the revolution of values in the speech at Riverside Church / Frederick J. Antczak -- The last mountaintop of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Michael Osborn -- The call from the mountaintop : call-response and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Robert D. Harrison, Linda K. Harrison.

Personal Subject:

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968-Oratory.

Added Author:

Calloway-Thomas, Carolyn, 1943-

Lucaites, John Louis.

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Summary

Critical studies of the range of King's public discourse as forms of sermonic rhetoric

The nine essays in this volume offer critical studies of the range of King's public discourse as forms of sermonic rhetoric. They focus on five diverse and relative short examples from King's body of work: "Death of Evil on the Seashore," "Letter from Birmingham Jail," "I Have a Dream," "A Time to Break Silence," and "I've Been to the Mountaintop."

Taken collectively, these five works span both the duration of King's career as a public advocate but also represent the broad scope of his efforts to craft and project a persuasive vision a beloved community that persists through time.