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On human nature : a gathering while everything flows, 1967-1984 / Kenneth Burke ; edited by William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna ; arranged, and annotated by William H. Rueckert.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (405 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric of Motives, among other works, was an innovative and original thinker who worked at the intersection of sociology, psychology, literary theory, and semiotics. This book, a selection of fourteen representative pieces of his productive later years, addresses many important themes Burke tackled throughout his career such as logology (his attempt to find a universal language theory and methodology), technology, and ecology. The essays also elaborate Burke's notions about creativity and its relation to stress, language and its literary uses, the relation of mind and body, and more. Provocative, idiosyncratic, and erudite, On Human Nature makes a significant statement about cultural linguistics and is an important rounding-out of the Burkean corpus.
- Contents:
- On stress, its seeking, 1967
- On "creativity", a partial retraction, 1971
- Towards Helhaven : three stages of a vision, 1971
- Why satire, with a plan for writing one, 1974
- Realisms, occidental style, 1982
- Archetype and entelechy, 1972
- (Nonsymbolic) motion/(symbolic) action, 1978
- Theology and logology, 1979
- Symbolism as a realistic mode : "de-psychoanalyzing" logologized, 1979
- A theory of terminology, 1967
- Towards looking back, 1976
- Variations on "providence", 1981
- Eye-crossing, from Brooklyn to Manhattan : an eye-poem for the ear, 1973
- Counter-gridlock : an interview with Kenneth Burke, 1980-81.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780520923065
- 0520923065
- 9781597347822
- 1597347825
- OCLC:
- 475927446
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