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Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory.
Kenneth Burke has 113 books on Goodreads with 7330 ratings. Kenneth Burke’s most popular book is A Rhetoric of Motives.
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Kenneth Burke's A Grammar of Motives (published in 1945) responds to the question, "what is involved when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it" (xi). Written as part of an intended trilogy, along with A Rhetoric of Motives and the never completed A Symbolic of Motives, Burke's treatise probes into the way language incites and ...
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Nov 19, 1993 · Kenneth Duva Burke was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and aesthetics.
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The greatest books written by Kenneth Burke. Kenneth Burke (1897–1993) was an influential American literary theorist and philosopher. Best known for his theories on rhetoric and his analysis of the nature of social interaction, Burke's work spans across several disciplines including sociology, criticism, and philosophy.
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-linguistic--are modes of symbolizing; man is defined as the symbol-using (and -misusing) animal.
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