Kenneth Burke on Myth: An Introduction

Kenneth Burke on Myth: An Introduction
ISBN-10
113534907X
ISBN-13
9781135349073
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
219
Language
English
Published
2013-10-18
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Lawrence Coupe

Description

Kenneth Burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary form. He did not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor was he reducible to any simple set of principles or ideas. He published widely, and is probably best known for two of his classic works, A Rhetoric of Motive and Philosophy of Literary Form. His observations on myth, however, were never systematic, and much of his writing on literary theory and other topics cannot be fully understood without fleshing out his thoughts on myth and mythmaking.

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