Martin Luther King, Jr., and the sermonic power of public discourse / edited by Carolyn Calloway-Thomas and John Louis Lucaites.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in rhetoric and communication.
Other Authors: Calloway-Thomas, Carolyn, 1943-
Lucaites, John Louis
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1993], ©1993.
Series:Studies in rhetoric and communication.
Subjects:
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968 > Oratory.
Physical Description:ix, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.