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On Human Nature

A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984

On Human Nature( )
Author: Burke, Kenneth
Editor: Rueckert, William H.
Bonadonna, Angelo
ISBN:978-0-520-21919-9
Publication Date:Aug 2003
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $85.00
Book 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...
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Book Details
Pages:403
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / General
Literary Criticism / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.636 x 0.92 x 0.133 Inches
Book Weight:1.6 Pounds
Author Biography
Burke, Kenneth (Author)
Born in Pittsburgh, Burke was educated at Ohio State and Columbia universities. During his early career, he became involved with a number of little magazines, including Broom and Secession. He also wrote for The Dial and The Nation as a music critic. His greatest fame, however, has been as a literary critic.

Omnivorously eclectic, Burke has found in the analysis of human symbolic activities a key to the largest cultural issues. For Burke, literature is the most prominent and sophisticated form of "symbolic action," one that provides "equipment for living" by allowing us to try out hypothetical strategies for dealing with the endless variety of human situations and experiences. Human society demands some principle of order, but the language and reason that create order can fall into rigid abstractions that can be destructive and violently imposed. Literature shows us an image of sacrifice, forgiveness, and flexibility that plays an important role in keeping society functioning flexibly.

Burke's writing is extensive, complex and wide ranging, but also unique and uniquely important among current critical approaches.

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