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A Grammar of Motives

By Kenneth Burke

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780520341715
DOI
10.1525/9780520341715
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
40 MB (42222998 bytes)
Edition
Reprint 2020
Pages
560\554
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 15:42:27

Description

About this book Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it? An answer to that question is the subject of this book. The book is concerned with the basic forms of through which, in accordance with the nature of the world as all men necessarily experience it, are exemplified in the attributing of motives. These forms of though can be embodied profoundly or trivially, truthfully or falsely. They are equally present in systematically elaborated or metaphysical structures, in legal judgments, in poetry and fiction, in political and scientific works, in news and in bits of gossip offered at random."

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