Kenneth Burke
rhetoric, subjectivity, postmodernism
by Robert Wess
Kenneth Burke, arguably the most important American literary theorist of the twentieth century, helped define the theoretical terrain for contemporary literary and cultural studies. His perspectives were literary and linguistic, but his influences ranged across history, philosophy and the social sciences. In this important and original study Robert Wess traces the trajectory of Burke's long career and situates his work in relation to post-modernity.
His study is both an examination of contemporary theories of rhetoric, ideology and the subject, and an explanation of why Burke failed to complete his Motives trilogy. Burke's own critique of the "isolated unique individual" led him to question the possibility of unique individualism, a strategy which anticipated important elements of post-modern concepts of subjectivity.
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Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism
2011, Cambridge University Press
in English
0511890540 9780511890543
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Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism
2010, Cambridge University Press
in English
0511552874 9780511552878
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Kenneth Burke: rhetoric, subjectivity, postmodernism
1996, Cambridge University Press
in English
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