The rhetorical construction of time in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “letter from Birmingham jail”

• Ronald E. Lee ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Nebraska System

     University of Nebraska System

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 56, nº 4, 1990, págs. 279-288
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay explores the rhetorical use of time in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and offers an explanation of the ideological heritage that temporally unifies the discourse. The essay describes the “Letter's” recent, historical, and spiritual time frames, accounts for the ideological purpose each serves, and explains on what ground they unite.