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Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950–1955

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Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950–1955

Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950–1955 by Kenneth Burke, edited by William H. Rueckert
English | November 9, 2006 | ISBN: 1932559353, 1932559345 | True EPUB | 340 pages | 0.9 MB

Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950 -1955 contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy, which began with A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). In these essays-some of which appear here in print for the first time-Burke offers his most precise and elaborated account of his dramatistic poetics, providing readers with representative analyses of such writers as Aeschylus, Goethe, Hawthorne, Roethke, Shakespeare, and Whitman.

Following Rueckert's Introduction, Burke lays out his approach in essays that theorize and illustrate the method, which he considered essential for understanding language as symbolic action and human relations generally. Burke concludes with a focused account of humans as symbol-using and misusing animals and then offers his tour de force reading of Goethe's Faust.