Olson, Kathryn M. “Detecting a Common Uncovering Hidden

Olson, Kathryn M. “Detecting a Common Interpretive Framework for Impersonal Violence:
The Homology in Participants’ Rhetoric on Sport Hunting, “Hate Crimes” and Stranger Rape” Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise. Ed. Barry Brummett. Sage: Los Angeles. 2008.

“According to dictionary definitions, a “homology” is the quality or condition of exhibiting correspondence or similarity in position, value, function, or structure; for example, a seal’s flippers are homologous to a human’s arms. . .A rhetorical homology is a formal parrell that cuts across seemingly dissimilar discourses” (87). =B

“I present the rhetorical homology explicityly as a recurring socially held and strategically applied symbolic pattern within contemporary American culture, rather than one emerging from nature or from human’s psycholocial structures” (88).
“Symbolically grounded violence can be resisted with more persuasive counter-symbol use” (115). =E

So then, guilt rhetoric based on Eve’s original sin, could symbolically be countered with rhetoric based upon other Bible information that appears to counter this.