Chiara Lubich's 1977 templeton prize acceptance speech: Case study in the mystical narrative
Communication Studies June 1, 1993 DOI: 10.1080/10510979309368388 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that rhetorical criticism has neglected the element of purpose in Burke's dramatistic pentad and its mystical philosophy, and proposes that Chiara Lubich's 1977 Templeton Prize Acceptance Speech illustrates a discrete sub-class of purposive rhetoric the author calls the "mystical narrative." |
Abstract
Critical literature has largely ignored the element of purpose in Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad, along with its attendant philosophy of mysticism. Chiara Lubich's 1977 Templeton Prize Acceptance Speech presents rhetorical critics with a valuable opportunity to observe in practice the features of a rhetoric of purpose, as Burke has disseminated them. In fact, analysis of Lubich's speech according to Burke's criteria of purposive rhetoric suggests the existence of a discrete sub‐class of purposive rhetoric identified here as the mystical narrative.