Description: Grammar of Motives, Paperback by Burke, Kenneth, ISBN 0520015444, ISBN-13 9780520015449, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "A Grammar of Motives," published in 1945, is the first volume of a gigantic trilogy, planned to include A Rhetoric of Motives and A Symbolic of Motives, which will be called something like On Human Relations. The aim of the whole series is no less than the comprehensive exploration of human motives and the forms of thought and expression built around them, and its ultimate object, expression in the epigraph: 'ad bellum purificandum,' is to eliminate the whole world of conflict that can be eliminated through understanding. The method or key metaphor for the study is 'drama' or 'dramatism,' and the basic terms of analysis are the dramatistic pentad: Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, and Purpose. The Grammar, which Burke confesses in the Introduction grew from a prolegomena of a few hundred words to nearly 200,000, is a consideration of the purely internal relationship of these five terms, 'their possibilities of transformation, their range of permutations and combinations'..."--Stanley Edgar Hyman, author of The Armed Vision
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Number of Pages: 554 Pages
Publication Name: Grammar of Motives
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 1969
Subject: General, Rhetoric, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Features: Reprint
Item Weight: 28.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Kenneth Burke
Item Width: 7.5 in
Format: Hardcover
