"Making a way out of no way"
Subtitle: Martin Luther King's sermonic proverbial rhetoric
By: Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433113031; 9781433113048
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt" : Martin Luther King's proverbial rhetoric; title: "Let your conscience be your guide" : the proverbial messages of King's five books; title: "The cross we must bear for freedom" : traditional metaphors in the letters; title: "Practicing what we preach" : proverbial expressiveness in interviews; title: "There are rules of the game" : King's proverbial "advice for living"; title: "Love your enemies" : sermonic explications of proverbs; title: "Who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword" : Bible proverbs as didactic argumentation; title: "No gain without pain" : folk proverbs as traditional wisdom; title: "The idea whose time had come moved on" : turning quotations into proverbs; title: "No lie can live forever" : quotational and proverbial amassments; title: "Freedom is not given, it is won" : Martin Luther King's proverbial quotations; title: "To change someone's heart" : somatic phrases as emotive expressions; title: "To be at the bottom of the ladder" : economic phrases as social signs; title: "To be at the boiling point" : proverbial phrases as signs of tension; title: "Making a way out of no way" : the phraseological way to progress; title: "I have a dream" : proverbial manifestations of a better future.