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"Making a way out of no way" : Martin Luther King's sermonic proverbial rhetoric / Wolfgang Mieder.
- Title
- "Making a way out of no way" : Martin Luther King's sermonic proverbial rhetoric / Wolfgang Mieder.
- Author
- Mieder, Wolfgang
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
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- Description
- xiv, 551 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "Convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt" : Martin Luther King's proverbial rhetoric -- "Let your conscience be your guide" : the proverbial messages of King's five books -- "The cross we must bear for freedom" : traditional metaphors in the letters -- "Practicing what we preach" : proverbial expressiveness in interviews -- "There are rules of the game" : King's proverbial "advice for living" -- "Love your enemies" : sermonic explications of proverbs -- "Who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword" : Bible proverbs as didactic argumentation -- "No gain without pain" : folk proverbs as traditional wisdom -- "The idea whose time had come moved on" : turning quotations into proverbs -- "No lie can live forever" : quotational and proverbial amassments -- "Freedom is not given, it is won" : Martin Luther King's proverbial quotations -- "To change someone's heart" : somatic phrases as emotive expressions -- "To be at the bottom of the ladder" : economic phrases as social signs -- "To be at the boiling point" : proverbial phrases as signs of tension -- "Making a way out of no way" : the phraseological way to progress -- "I have a dream" : proverbial manifestations of a better future.
- ISBN
- 9781433113031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1433113031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781433113048 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 143311304X (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010028482
- OCLC
- 650504335
- SCSB-12515972
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library