Fetching Good out of Evil in AA: A Bormannean Fantasy Theme Analysis of "The Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Ford, Leigh Arden

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Publication Date: 1989

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Fetching Good out of Evil in AA: A Bormannean Fantasy Theme Analysis of "The Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Ford, Leigh Arden

Communication Quarterly, v37 n1 p1-15 Win 1989

Examines the rhetoric of "The Big Book," the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), using fantasy theme analysis. Suggests that the rhetorical vision of AA may be described as Alcoholism as Treatable Illness of Body, Mind, and Soul; a variation of Bormann's rhetorical form "Fetching Good out of Evil." (SR)

Descriptors: Alcoholism, Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism

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Language: English

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