Addressing postmodernity : Kenneth Burke, rhetoric, and a theory of social change /

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This text examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change, and how people transform social relations through the use of symbols. It focuses on the work of Kenneth Burke, to discern the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of people and rhetoric in it.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Biesecker, Barbara A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1997.
Series:Studies in rhetoric and communication.
Subjects:
Burke, Kenneth, > 1897-1993.
Burke, Kenneth, > 1897-1993
Bürger, Christa > 1935- > Postmoderne
Burke, Kenneth.
1900-1999
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature and society.
Social change.
Rhetoric.
Society in literature.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Postmodernisme (Littérature)
Littérature et société.
Rhétorique.
rhetoric (discipline)
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Society in literature
Literature and society
Social change
Rhetoric
Rhetorik
Sozialer Wandel
Literatur
Sociale verandering.
Retorica.
Postmodernisme.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Entering the fray
  • Reading ontology in A grammar of motives
  • A rhetoric of motives, or Toward an ontology of the social
  • Further speculations on the dialectic: The rhetoric of religion
  • From communicative action to rhetorical invention.

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