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On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984

By Kenneth Burke

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0520219198, 9780520219199, 9780585456317
Open Library ID
OL7710681M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1147658 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
403\405
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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