Frederick Douglass and the African American Epistle
Scholars of rhetoric are drawn to the African American epistle, a subgenre of reformist literature that spans more than two centuries, by its structural features and by its impact on public discourse. An epistle is a private letter made public, or a moral commentary packaged into a personal missive....
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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2021
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A journal of church and state
Год: 2021, Том: 63, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 216-233 |
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| Итог: | Scholars of rhetoric are drawn to the African American epistle, a subgenre of reformist literature that spans more than two centuries, by its structural features and by its impact on public discourse. An epistle is a private letter made public, or a moral commentary packaged into a personal missive. Its multilevel audience—the addressees on one tier, the broader readership on another—enables an ad hominem directness more intrinsic to religious than to legal or philosophical writing. Even so, the epistle differs from other sermonic modes like the jeremiad in its appeal to the bonds of friendship rather than to prophetic warning.... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa030 |