Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955
- ISBN-10
- 1932559345
- ISBN-13
- 9781932559347
- Category
- Literary form
- Pages
- 315
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Parlor Press LLC
- Author
- Kenneth Burke
Description
This volume contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy. Following Rueckert's Introduction, Burke lays out his approach in essays that theorize and illustrate the method, which he considered essential for understanding language as symbolic action and human relations generally.
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