Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Symbolic action ; 1. Nature's physician: The metabiology of Kenneth Burke ; 2. Toward an ecology of language ; 3. Kenneth Burke's pragmatism-old and new
  • Part II. Burke and feminism ; 4. "Being" and the promise of trinity: A feminist addition to Burke's theory of dramatism ; 5. "Can this marriage be saved?": Reclaiming Burke for feminist scholarship
  • Part III. Postmodernism and multiculturalism ; 6. Kenneth Burke's implicit theory of power ; 7. Dramatism and deconstruction: Burke, de Man, and the rhetorical motive ; 8. Multiculturalism and the Burkean system: Limitations and extensions extentsions
  • Part IV. The Burkean system ; 9. Lacan, Burke, and human motive ; 10. Burkean social hierarchy and the ironic investment of Martin Luther King ; 11. "Secular pragmatism": Kenneth Burke and the [re]socialization of literature and theory
  • Contributors
  • Index.