Kenneth Burke’s Weed Garden : : Refiguring the Mythic Grounds of Modern Rhetoric /

Kenneth Burke’s Weed Garden : : Refiguring the Mythic Grounds of Modern Rhetoric / / Kyle Jensen.

Since its publication in 1950, Kenneth Burke’s A Rhetoric of Motives has been one of the most influential texts of theory and criticism. Critics have discovered in its pages concepts that reveal new dimensions of human motivation. And yet, despite its obvious genius, critics have interpreted A Rheto...

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Jensen, Kyle,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: An Archive of Motives
  • Prolegomena
  • 1. Lapsing into the Unformed
  • 2. A Modest Proposal
  • 3. Part-to-Whole Relations
  • 4. The Factors Behind Rhetoric
  • 5. The Ideal Opening
  • 6. Charting an Upward and Downward Path
  • 7. A Pause at the Window
  • 8. Writing at the Center of the Universe
  • 9. Everything Is Nowhere
  • Epilegomena
  • Part II: A Theory of Motives
  • Prolegomena
  • 1. Mythic Palingenesis
  • 2. Identification’s Dimensions
  • 3. Devices Old and New
  • 4. Mythic Historiography
  • Epilegomena
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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