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Bachelors Literature Columbia University
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According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Duva Burke was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Burke was best known for his analyses based on the nature of knowledge. Further, he was one of the first individuals to stray from more traditional rhetoric and view literature as "symbolic action."

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Kenneth Burke's Published Works

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A Grammar of Motives. (1947) (3515)
A Rhetoric of Motives (1969) (1942)
Language as symbolic action : essays on life, literature, and method (1966) (1568)
The philosophy of literary form (1974) (908)
The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action (1941) (566)
The rhetoric of religion : studies in logology (1962) (421)
A grammar of motives and a rhetoric of motives (1962) (227)
Dramatism and development (1972) (122)
(Nonsymbolic) Motion/(Symbolic) Action (1978) (79)
The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action. (1942) (55)
The Rhetoric of Religion (1961) (54)
CULTURE IN ACTION : SYMBOLS AND (1986) (50)
A dramatistic view of the origins of language (1952) (40)
Dramatism and logology (1985) (35)
Othello: An Essay to Illustrate a Method (1951) (32)
Dramatism as ontology or epistemology: A symposium (1985) (24)
Thanatopsis for Critics: A Brief Thesaurus of Deaths and Dyings (1952) (18)
A dramatistic view of the origins of language: Part III (1952) (12)
Dramatic Form-And: "Tracking down Implications" (1966) (12)
The Rhetoric of Religion. Studies in Logology (1962) (9)
Collected Poems, 1915-1967 (1968) (7)
Kermode Revisited@@@The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1969) (5)
THE THINKING OF THE BODY; COMMENTS ON THE IMAGERY OF CATHARSIS IN LITERATURE. (1963) (3)
A Comment on "It Takes Capital to Defeat Dracula" (1987) (2)
The Language of Poetry, "Dramatistically" Considered (1954) (1)
The complete white oxen;: Collected short fiction (1968) (1)
Philosophy and the Arts: Terministic Screens (1965) (1)
The Philosophy of Literary Form; Studies in Symbolic Action (1942) (0)
Book Review:The Ethics of Competition and Other Essays. Frank Hyneman Knight (1937) (0)
An old liberal looks to the new year, 1953 (1991) (0)
Motion, Action, Words (1960) (0)
Irish Members of Parliament and the Home-Rule Bill of 1912 (1976) (0)
Bennington College Calendar of Evening Events, Fall, 1962 (1962) (0)
FEARING'S NEW POEMS (1973) (0)
Lecture and Assignment-Language as Symbolic Action-Kenneth Burke (1955) (0)
Post-Poesque Derivation of a Terministic Cluster (1977) (0)

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