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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520015463ISBN-10:520015460UPC:9780520015463Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC557R1HD9
A Rhetoric of Motives
As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began to discriminate a "rhetorical" or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of language and human conduct.
In A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950), Burke's conception of "symbolic action" comes into its own:...
In A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950), Burke's conception of "symbolic action" comes into its own:...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520015463ISBN-10:520015460UPC:9780520015463Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC557R1HD9
Kenneth Burke has been termed "simply the finest literary critic in the world, and perhaps the finest since Coleridge" (Stanley Edgar Hyman, The New Leader). Mr. Burke has published ten other works with the University of California Press: Towards a Better Life (1966); Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method (1966) Collected Poems, 1915-1967 (1968); The Complete White...
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