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Abstract
Utilizing fantasy theme analysis, this study examined the rhetoric of The Big Book, the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous. This study suggests the rhetorical vision of AA may be described as Alcoholism as Treatable Illness of Body, Mind, and Soul. The accompanying fantasy themes of dramatis personae, setting, plotline, and sanctioning agent are delineated. In addition, this essay argues that the rhetorical vision of AA is a variation of the rhetorical form “Fetching Good Out of Evil” suggested by Bormann (1977).
