Solzhenitsyn on detente: a study of perspective by incongruity

• James L. Hoban Jr. ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Virginia

     University of Virginia

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 42, nº 2, 1976, págs. 163-177
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Kenneth Burke's concept of “perspective by incongruity” names a strategy for transcending an unsatisfactory situation. Two speeches delivered by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the United States during 1975 illustrate the use of the strategy to discount the Soviet‐American diplomacy of detente. After debunking Marxist ideology and capitalist concessions to communist nations, he posited an absolute moral order as the ground for a genuine detente