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Burke, Kenneth Duva - 1897–1993, American critic, b. Pittsburgh, Pa. He was music critic for The Dial (1927–29) and The Nation (1934–36). A profound thinker whose writings have influenced other critics, Burke saw literature as "symbolic action"—man must view everything through a haze of symbols (language). Among his works are Counter-Statement (1931);


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    Unending Conversations: New Writings by and about Kenneth Burke » Read Now

    by Greig Henderson, David Cratis Williams. 233 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Previously unpublished writings by and about Kenneth Burke plus essays by such Burkean luminaries as Wayne C. Booth, William H. Rueckert, Robert Wess, Thomas Carmichael, and Michael Feehan make the publication of Unending Conversations a significant event in the field of Burke studies and in the...
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    A Grammar of Motives » Read Now

    by Kenneth Burke. 530 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...A GRAMMAR OF MOTIVES Ad bellum purificandum -ii- A GRAMMAR OF MOTIVES by KENNETH BURKE New York PRENTICE-HALL, INC. 1945 Copyright, 1945, by PRENTICE-HALL, INC. 70 Fifth...
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    Counter-Statement » Read Now

    by Kenneth Burke. 244 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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    Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose » Read Now

    by Kenneth Burke. 343 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...Permanence and Change An Anatomy of Purpose by KENNETH BURKE Sharp-cut scientific classifications are essential for scientific method, but they are dangerous for...
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    Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric and Ideology » Read Now

    by Stephen Bygrave. 124 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric and Ideology is a lucid and accessible introduction to a major twentieth-century thinker those ideas have influenced fields as diverse as literary theory, philosophy, linguistics, politics and anthropology. Stephen Bygrave explores the content of Burke's vast output of work...
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    Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored (Chap. 3 "Kenneth Burke on Form, Motive, and Purpose") » Read Now

    by Arabella Lyon. 215 pgs.

    A philosophical study that introduces a new concept of intention into literary analysis.

    The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation challenges existing literary and rhetorical perspectives on...

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    Communication and Social Order (Part Four "Burke's Sociology of Language") » Read Now

    by Hugh Dalziel Duncan. 482 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Function of the Act in the Work of Kenneth Burke Social Action as Symbolic...general idea of social form. 5 Kenneth Burke stresses that social interaction...say is taken...
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    Language and Literature in Society: A Sociological Essay on Theory and Method in the Interpretation of Linguistic Symbols (Chap. VI "Literature as Equipment for Action: Burke's Dramatistic Conception") » Read Now

    by Hugh Dalziel Duncan. 266 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...is very great. I hope this book will at least indicate, if not eliminate, this debt. My specific obligations to Kenneth Burke, whom I met at the university, will be so...
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    Kenneth Burke's Dramatism and Popular Arts » Read Now

    by C. Ronald Kimberling. 108 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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    Edifying Arguments and Perspective by Incongruity: The Perplexing Argumentation Method of Kenneth Burke, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now

    by David G. Levasseur. 9 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...perplexing argumentation method of Kenneth Burke by David G. Levasseur...Association, Atlanta, November 1991. Burke, Kenneth. Attitudes Toward History. 3rd...1958...
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    Hegemony and Globalism: Kenneth Burke and Paradoxes of Representation, in Communication Studies » Read Now

    by Jason Ingram. 21 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Hegemony and globalism: Kenneth Burke and paradoxes of representation...fallibility. For example, the Kenneth Burke discussion forum questioned whether...1997). Addressing...
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    The Comic Frame as a Corrective to Bureaucratization: A Dramatistic Perspective on Argumentation, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now

    by Arnie J. Madsen. 14 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...rely on the diverse writings of Kenneth Burke to provide an orientation for...texts reveals that the works of Kenneth Burke have gone relatively unnoticed...Dordrecht:...
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    Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources ("Kenneth Duva Burke (1897-1993)" begins on p. 75) » Read Now

    by Michael G. Moran, Michelle Ballif. 426 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Much work has been done on rhetoric and rhetorical theory in the 20th century, with scientists discussing the rhetoric of the scientific method and philosophers debating the rhetoric of the metaphysical tradition. This reference summarizes major trends in rhetoric during the last hundred years...
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