Kenneth Burke: 4 books
Equipment for Living
The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke is the largest collection of Burke's book reviews, most of them reprinted here for the first time. In these reviews, as he engages famous works of poetry, fiction, criticism, and social science from the early 20th century, Burke demonstrates the prominent methods and interests of his influential career.
by Kenneth Burke
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955. ESSAYS TOWARD A SYMBOLIC OF MOTIVES, 1950¬-1955 contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy, which began with A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). In these essays-some of which appear...
Close Reading
The Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2002
An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The lively introduction and the selected essays...
Retórica de la religión
Estudios de logología
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Partiendo de la comprensión de la religión como un lenguaje, el autor analiza la terminología religiosa y la retórica que la articula: teología y logología. Con ejemplos como la acción verbal en las Confesiones de san Agustín y los primeros tres capítulos del Génesis.