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Kenneth Burke in the 1930s

Kenneth Burke in the 1930s

Ann George

An invitation to mingle with Burke in the 30s and witness the development of his major works of the era
Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955

Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955

Kenneth Burke

This volume contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy.
Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric and Ideology

Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric and Ideology

Stephen Bygrave

This is an excellent re-evaluation of Burke's thought and valuble introduction to the impressive range of his ideas.
Kenneth Burke and the 21st Century

Kenneth Burke and the 21st Century

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This volume, edited by an influential Burkean scholar, addresses the question: Who was Burke and how can his work be helpful to those who must face new problems and challenges?
A Grammar of Motives

A Grammar of Motives

Kenneth Burke

"'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.'"--Mr. Burke, as quoted on the cover.
On Symbols and Society

On Symbols and Society

Kenneth Burke

" As this volume demonstrates, the work that Burke produced from the 1930s through the 1960s stands as both precursor and contemporary key to recent intellectual movements such as structuralism, symbolic anthropology, phenomenological and ...
Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism

Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism

Robert Wess

This book is both a timely and judicious exposition of Burke's long career and a crucial intervention in critical debates surrounding rhetoric, history and human agency.
Realism and Relativism: A Perspective on Kenneth Burke

Realism and Relativism: A Perspective on Kenneth Burke

Robert Lawrence Heath

In a recent attempt to explain “symbolic inducement and knowing,” Richard B. Gregg isolates six principles of language and thought: formulation of boundaries, rhythm, association, classification, abstraction, and hierarchy.' Burke's list is more  ...
Civic Jazz: American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of ...

Civic Jazz: American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of ...

Gregory Clark

Clark has found that jazz, as an activity and a cultural form, goes a long way toward illustrating that process. Jazz is often described as democratic. Burke s rhetorical and aesthetic ideas explain how this is so.
Andrew Burke: Poetry

Andrew Burke: Poetry

Andrew Burke

Presents a collection of poems written by Australian author Andrew Burke. Contains the full-text of each available poem. Links to biographical information and Burke's home page. Offers access to information about Burke's books.
Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Dennis O'Keeffe

This volume places Burke in his historical context and carefully sets out the whole of Burke's philosophical contribution.
The Hoffmans of North Carolina revisited, 1749-1998: a ...

The Hoffmans of North Carolina revisited, 1749-1998: a ...

Frances Wellman Hoffman

She married WW MCCALL, 1907 in BURKE CO, NC. Born about 1880. iii. JAMES MICHAEL HOFFMAN. Born 1892 in BURKE CO, NC. Died 1912 in BURKE CO, NC. Never married. iv. ANNA HOFFMAN. Born about 1893 in BURKE CO, NC.
A program of entrepreneurial education for economic ...

A program of entrepreneurial education for economic ...

John Miles Burke

the case of Northeast Brazil John Miles Burke. Copyright by John Miles Burke 1968 The dissertation of John Miles Burke is approved, and it.
Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (1729-97) was a British statesman, a political philosopher, a literary critic, the grandfather of modern conservatism, and an elegant, prolific letter writer and prose stylist.
Edmund Burke of Beaconsfield

Edmund Burke of Beaconsfield

Elizabeth R. Lambert

In many and complex ways Beaconsfield is an essential key to the Edmund Burke who defined himself as the embodiment of Cicero's "new man" and whose marital relationship with Jane Nugent Burke sustained, nurtured, and drove him throughout ...
A List of the Claims as They are Entred [!] with the ...

A List of the Claims as They are Entred [!] with the ...

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By a Parol Lease in January or February 1691. from James Donelane to Miles Burke, in Trust for John Burke, who Exchanged the Lands in the Claim for other Lands of the Claimant. Witnesses to the Lease, Miles Burke, & al. To prove the ...
The Elements of Dramatism

The Elements of Dramatism

David Blakesley

The Elements of Dramatism is the first pragmatic introduction to the work of Kenneth Burke for those interested in communication and language.
Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language

Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language

Debra Hawhee

Moving Bodies presents him as a major transdisciplinary theorist of the body.
Counter-statement

Counter-statement

Kenneth Burke

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.
Burke Davis on the Civil War: The Long Surrender, Sherman's ...

Burke Davis on the Civil War: The Long Surrender, Sherman's ...

Burke Davis

Award-winning author Burke Davis writes with “an eye for narrative detail that turns history into storytelling” in these four classic Civil War narratives (The New York Times Book Review).
The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action

The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action

Kenneth Burke

Probes the nature of linguistic or symbolic action as it relates to specific novels, plays, and poems
Readings in Jurisprudence

Readings in Jurisprudence

Burke Shartel

Burke Shartel. IIII LIB : *ventras - £ "NIVERS"Muting" |-> E ->~~ £: - - - - *LE - - -- - | - # #CHOOL: # | - - - | TREADINGS IN JURISPRUDENCE Burke Shartel Professor of Law University of Michigan.
Attitudes Toward History

Attitudes Toward History

Kenneth Burke

Examines how tragedy, satire, fantasy, and comedy express specific attitudes about history, describes the structure of history, and analyzes its symbolism
Edmund Burke: Modernity, Politics and Aesthetics

Edmund Burke: Modernity, Politics and Aesthetics

Stephen K. White

Edmund Burke: Modernity, Politics, and Aesthetics examines the philosophy of Burke in view of its contribution to our understanding of modernity.
Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue

Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue

Stephen H. Browne

Close readings of Burke's public discourse and political writings
Mine fields

Mine fields

Bill Burke

In addition to publishing the reprint of Bill Burke's iconic "I Want To Take Picture," Twin Palms Publishers is pleased to be distributing first edition copies of "Mine Fields," Burke's follow-up to "I Want To Take Picture," published by ...

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