Narrative in Martin Luther King'sI've been to the mountaintop

The Use of Narrative Paradigm Theory in Assessing Audience Value Conflict in Image Advertising

“…He explores the blurring of fantasy (what gets told) and reality (actual events) in postmodern relationships among global capitalism, activism, and popular culture (Boje, 1995(Boje, , 1999a(Boje, , 1999b. Walter Fisher's (1984 Narrative Paradigm Theory has been operationalized and used widely to examine narrative coherence, fidelity, and values (Aden, 1994;Baesler, 1995;Boyce, 1995a;Carpenter, 1986;Cragan & Shields, 1995;Meyer, 1995;Mumby, 1987;Rostek, 1992;Sharf & Poirier, 1988;Vanderford, Smith, & Harris, 1992). There are five assumptions of Narrative Paradigm Theory: Humans are essentially storytellers, human communication is achieved fundamentally through stories, through discourse humans use "good reasons" for believing or acting, humans have an inherent narrative logic that guides their assessments of communication, and the world as we know it is a set of stories that allows each of us to construct and adapt our realities (Fisher, 1987, p. xi).…”

Reaffirmation of God's anointed prophet: The use of chiasm in Martin Luther King's “Mountaintop” speech

“…Rosteck (1992) has already shown that there is a coherence and fidelity that match this narrative with the Exodus journey, giving it a certain logical order. Analysis along similar lines uncovers more dimensions of the order of King's address, which provide a key to King's motivating purpose in the speech.…”

“…Osborn, while provocative, leaves room to explore the inner working of the text. Rosteck (1992) probes deeper into the text, noting that King adapts an existing narrative of the Biblical Exodus, which his audience is quite familiar with, to the immediate situation. By this narrative approach, King is able not only to retell the Exodus journey, but simultaneously to encourage identification with the narrative so that ultimately listeners can recall and complete the story themselves.…”

Technology and mythic narrative:The matrixas technological hero‐quest

“…It is this facet of the mythic narrative that affords a myth its survival and diffusion (Doniger, 1998). Film criticism in the field of rhetoric can profit from contextualized dividends paid to other textual studies by a narrative approach to audiences and texts (Bass, 1985;Burgchardt, 1995;Lewis, 1995;Rosteck, 1992).…”