Addressing postmodernity : Kenneth Burke, rhetoric, and a theory of social change / Barbara A. Biesecker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biesecker, Barbara A.

Series:

Studies in rhetoric and communication.

Studies in rhetoric and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism (Literature).

Rhetoric.

Literature and society.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.

Burke, Kenneth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (138 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Biesecker reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change.In Addressing Postmodernity, Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of symbols. In discerning the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of human beings and rhetoric in it, Biesecker turns to the seminal work of Kenneth Burke.Through a close reading of Burke's major works, A Grammar of Motives, A Rhetoric of M

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Entering the Fray; 2. Reading Ontology in A Grammar of Motives; 3. A Rhetoric of Motives, or Toward an Ontology of the Social; 4. Further Speculations on the Dialectic: The Rhetoric of Religion; 5. From Communicative Action to Rhetorical Invention; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-120) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8259-3

OCLC:

424521220