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Kenneth Burke

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Kenneth Duva Burke was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Burke was best known for his analyses based on the nature of knowledge. Further, he was one of the first individuals to stray from more traditional rhetoric and view literature as "symbolic action."

Books

A Rhetoric of Motives
A Rhetoric of Motives
Kenneth Burke
The Rhetoric of Religion
The Rhetoric of Religion
Kenneth Burke
Counter-Statement
Counter-Statement
Kenneth Burke
A Grammar of Motives
A Grammar of Motives
Kenneth Burke
The Philosophy of Literary Form
The Philosophy of Literary Form
Kenneth Burke
Language As Symbolic Action
Language As Symbolic Action
Kenneth Burke
The Complete White Oxen
The Complete White Oxen
Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Burke
Death in Venice
Death in Venice
Kenneth Burke
Language As Symbolic Action
Language As Symbolic Action
Kenneth Burke
Attitudes Toward History
Attitudes Toward History
Kenneth Burke
Attitudes Toward History, Third Edition
Attitudes Toward History, Third Edition
Kenneth Burke
La filosofía de la forma literaria
La filosofía de la forma literaria
Kenneth Burke
Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987
Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987
Kenneth Burke
Permanence and Change
Permanence and Change
Kenneth Burke
Here & Elsewhere
Here & Elsewhere
Kenneth Burke
On Symbols and Society
On Symbols and Society
Kenneth Burke
Perspectives by Incongruity
Perspectives by Incongruity
Kenneth Burke, Stanley Edgar Hyman
Death in Venice
Death in Venice
Kenneth Burke, Thomas Mann
Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955
Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955
Kenneth Burke, William Howe Rueckert
On Human Nature
On Human Nature
Kenneth Burke, Angelo Bonadonna, William H. Rueckert

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