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Book Title
Rhetoric of Motives
Publication Name
A Rhetoric of Motives
Title
A Rhetoric of Motives
Author
Kenneth Burke
Format
Trade Paperback / Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0520015460
EAN
9780520015463
ISBN
9780520015463
Publisher
University of California Press
Genre
Self-Help, Literary Criticism
Release Date
01/10/1969
Release Year
1969
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.9in
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Language
English
Publication Year
1969
Features
Reprint
Topic
Semiotics & Theory, Motivational & Inspirational
Number of Pages
356 Pages

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As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began to discriminate a "rhetorical" or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of language and human conduct. 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. The critic's job becomes one of the interpreting human symbolizing wherever he finds it, with the aim of illuminating human motivation. Thus the reach of the literary critic now extends to the social and ethical. A Grammar of Motives is a "methodical meditation" on such complex linguistic forms as plays, stories, poems, theologies, metaphysical systems, political philosophies, constitutions. A Rhetoric of Motives expands the field to human ways of persuasion and identification. Persuasion, as Burke sees it, "ranges from the bluntest quest of advantage, as in sales promotion or propaganda, through courtship, social etiquette, education, and the sermon, to a 'pure' form that delights in the process of appeal for itself alone, without ulterior purpose. And identification ranges from the politician who, addressing an audience of farmers, says, 'I was a farm boy myself, ' through the mysteries of social status, to the mystic's devout identification with the sources of all being."

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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520015460
ISBN-13
9780520015463
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Rhetoric of Motives
Author
Kenneth Burke
Format
Trade Paperback / Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Semiotics & Theory, Motivational & Inspirational
Publication Year
1969
Genre
Self-Help, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
356 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
B840
Edition Description
Reprint
Copyright Date
1969
Lccn
69-016742
Dewey Decimal
191.9
Dewey Edition
18

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