Making over Myth: The Rhetorical Use of the Puritan Conversion Narrative in <i>Kitchen Nightmares</i>

Document Type Article Abstract [First paragraph] John Rodden, in his analysis of the rhetoric of narrative in 1984, argues that the characters in the story are secondary to the narrative, which itself participates in and provides support for larger cultural myths (155). Though Rodden discusses overtly fictive literature, the same can be said for the simulacra of reality TV: a genre of television in which each episode follows a formula that obscures the individual contestants. The Fox reality...