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| Title: |
Textual dynamics of “the New South” |
| Author: |
Iltis, Robert S. |
| Appeared in: |
Communication studies |
| Paging: | Volume 43 (1992) nr. 1 pages 29-41 |
| Year: |
1992 |
| Contents: |
This essay examines stylistic dynamics in Henry W. Grady's landmark public address “The New South.” Working from the view that an important function of studies in public address is to account for the symbolic action in discourse, this essay offers a close reading of “The New South” based on Kenneth Burke's observations of substance, tropes and entitlement. The analysis demonstrates that through tropes and imagery Grady grounds the New South in familial and geometric substance that runs across sectional differences and temporal barriers. Grady deploys imagery and tropes that compel the reader or listener to see the Union as a crossing of sectional blood, the Civil War as travail imposed by God, and the New South as American soil—as a sanctified repository of blood shed to preserve the Union. Thus the tropes and imagery hold forth the potentialities in reunion by attributing purpose to the war; retrospect and prospect converging through symbolic interpretation of the past. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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