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  | | A Grammar of Motives(Reprint) by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 554 Pages, Published 1969 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-01544-9, ISBN: 0-520-01544-4 "About this book Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it? An answer to that question is the subject of this book. The book is concerned with the basic forms of through which, in accordance with the nature of the world as all men necessarily experience it, are exemplified in the attributing of motives. These forms of though can be embodied ..." |
 | | A Rhetoric of Motives(Updated) by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 1969 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-01546-3, ISBN: 0-520-01546-0 "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: all human activities--linguisitc or extra ..." |
 | | The Rhetoric of Religion(1st Edition) Studies in Logology by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 327 Pages, Published 1970 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-01610-1, ISBN: 0-520-01610-6 ""But the point of Burke's work, and the significance of his achievement, is not that he points out that religion and language affect each other, for this has been said before, but that he proceeds to "demonstrate" how this is so by reference to a specific symbolic context. After a discussion 'On Words and The Word, ' he analysess verbal action in St. Augustine's "Confessions." He then discusses the first three chapters of Genesis, and e ..." |
 | | Permanence and Change(3rd Edition) An Anatomy of Purpose, Third edition by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 398 Pages, Published 1984 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-04146-2, ISBN: 0-520-04146-1 "Permanence and Change was written and first published in the depths of the Great Depression. Attitudes Toward History followed it two years later. These were revolutionary texts in the theory of communication, and, as classics, they retain their surcharge of energy. Permanence and Change treats human communication in terms of ideal cooperation, whereas Attitudes Towards History characterizes tactics and patterns of conflict typical of a ..." |
 | | Attitudes Toward History, Third edition(3rd Edition) by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 434 Pages, Published 1984 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-04148-6, ISBN: 0-520-04148-8 "With a New Afterword Kenneth Burke. CHAPTER ONE WILLIAM JAMES, WHITMAN, AND EMERSON TO "accept the universe" or to "protest against it." William James puts them side by side, as "voluntary alternatives" between which "in a given case of evil the mind seesaws." And: "The second not being resorted to till the first has failed, it would seem either that the second were an insincere pis alter, or the first a superfluous vanity." Charac ..." |
 | | The philosophy of literary form; studies in symbolic action.(3rd Edition) by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 463 Pages, Published 1973 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-02483-0, ISBN: 0-520-02483-4 "From the ForewordThese pieces are selections from work done in the Thirties, a decade so changeable that I at first thought of assembling them under the title, "While Everything Flows." Their primary interest is in speculation on the nature of linguistic, or symbolic, or literary action--and in a search for more precise ways of locating or defining such action. Words are aspects of a much wider communicative context, most of which is n ..." |
 | | Counter-Statement(Updated) by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 1968 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-00196-1, ISBN: 0-520-00196-6 "A valuable feature of the second edition (1953) of Counter-Statement was the Curriculum Criticum in which the author placed the book in terms of his later work. For this new paperback edition, Mr. Burke continues his "curve of development" in an Addendum which surveys the course of his though in subsequent books (up to the publication of his Collected Poems, 1915 - 1967) and work-in-progress." |
 | | Language As Symbolic Action(Updated) Essays on Life, Literature, and Method by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 532 Pages, Published 1968 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-00192-3, ISBN: 0-520-00192-3 ""It is in his aspect as a literary critic that I find Burke most congenial. He is simply the finest literary critic in the world, and perhaps the finest since Coleridge... Like the only living critic comparable, I. A. Richards, Burke manages to combine his Aristotelian concern for structure with a Coleridgean concern for texture: the imaginative process, the tension of opposites, the language of poetry... Burke's thoroughness is fantast ..." |
 | | The War of Words(1st Edition) by Kenneth Burke, Anthony Burke, Kyle Jensen, Jack Selzer Paperback, 294 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-29812-5, ISBN: 0-520-29812-8 "When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated “Motivorum” project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. While the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents. A Rhetoric of Motives was originally intended to be a two-part book. Here at last is the second volume of A Rhetoric of Motives, the until-now unp ..." |
 | | On Human Nature(1st Edition) A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984 by Kenneth Burke, Angelo Bonadonna, William H. Rueckert, Carlo H. Rotella, William Howe Rueckert Hardcover, 403 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21919-9, ISBN: 0-520-21919-8 "On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric of Motives, among other works, was an innovative and original thinker who worked at the intersection of sociology, psychology, literary the ..." |
 | | The Philosophy of Literary Form Studies in Symbolic Action (Classic Reprint) by Kenneth Burke Hardcover, 476 Pages, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-364-61974-2, ISBN: 0-364-61974-0 "Excerpt from The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic ActionAs for analysis focused upon one work, probably my article on Hitler's Mein Kampf is the most complete example in these pages, with the references to the writings of Coleridge (whom I hope to treat later at greater length in a separate volume) probably coming next. The study of Julius Caesar as a device for the arousing and fulfilling of expectations in an audience, ..." |
 | | A Grammar of Motives (Classic Reprint) by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-282-36078-8, ISBN: 0-282-36078-6 "Excerpt from A Grammar of MotivesWe sought to formulate the basic stratagems which people employ, in endless variations, and consciously or unconsciously, for the out witting or cajoling Of one another. Since all these devices had a you and me quality about them, being addressed to some person or to some advantage, we classed them broadly under the heading of a Rhet orie. There were other notes, concerned with modes of expression and ap ..." |
 | | A Grammar of Motives (Classic Reprint) by Kenneth Burke Hardcover, 558 Pages, Published 2017 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-331-14991-3, ISBN: 0-331-14991-5 "Excerpt from A Grammar of Motives We sought to formulate the basic stratagems which people employ, in endless variations, and consciously or unconsciously, for the out witting or cajoling Of one another. Since all these devices had a you and me quality about them, being addressed to some person or to some advantage, we classed them broadly under the heading of a Rhet orie. There were other notes, concerned with modes of expression and a ..." |
 | | The Philosophy of Literary Form Studies in Symbolic Action (Classic Reprint) by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 478 Pages, Published 2017 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-282-58839-7, ISBN: 0-282-58839-6 "Excerpt from The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic ActionAs for analysis focused upon one work, probably my article on Hitler's Mein Kampf is the most complete example in these pages, with the references to the writings of Coleridge (whom I hope to treat later at greater length in a separate volume) probably coming next. The study of Julius Caesar as a device for the arousing and fulfilling of expectations in an audience, ..." |
 | | COMPLETE WHITE OXEN by Kenneth Burke Paperback, Published 2016 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-1-199-39031-8, ISBN: 1-199-39031-3 |
 | | On Symbols and Society(1st Edition) (Heritage of Sociology Series) by Kenneth Burke, Joseph R. Gusfield Paperback, 342 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08078-9, ISBN: 0-226-08078-1 "Kenneth Burke's innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety of disciplines—education, philosophy, history, psychology, religion, and others. While most widely acclaimed as a literary critic, Burke has elaborated a perspective toward the study of behavior and society that holds immense significance and rich insights for sociologists. This original anthology brings ..." |
 | | Towards a Better Life Being a Series of Epistles, or Declamations: A Novel by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 1982 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-04638-2, ISBN: 0-520-04638-2 "I. "My converse became a monologue" General statement of the narrator's antinomian philosophy. And his corresponding discomforts. Reference to a trip with a ..." |
 | | Death In Venice(1st Edition) by Thomas Mann, Erich Heller, Kenneth Burke Paperback, 436 Pages, Published 1970 by Mcgraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages ISBN-13: 978-0-07-553669-7, ISBN: 0-07-553669-2 "An aging German writer, on holiday in Venice, becomes intrigued by a youth whose remote beauty embodies the classic ideal" |
 | | Terms for Order by Kenneth Burke, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Editor-Barbara Karmiller Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 1964 by Indiana Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-253-20064-8, ISBN: 0-253-20064-4 "Terms for Order [paperback] Kenneth Burke,Stanley Edgar Hyman [Jun 01, 1964]" |
 | | Permanence And Change An Anatomy Of Purpose by Kenneth Burke Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-258-42151-9, ISBN: 1-258-42151-8 |
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