Kenneth Burke (1) (1897–1993)
Auteur de A Rhetoric of Motives
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Kenneth Burke, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Born in Pittsburgh, Burke was educated at Ohio State and Columbia universities. During his early career, he became involved with a number of little magazines, including Broom and Secession. He also wrote for The Dial and The Nation as a music critic. His greatest fame, however, has been as a afficher plus literary critic. Omnivorously eclectic, Burke has found in the analysis of human symbolic activities a key to the largest cultural issues. For Burke, literature is the most prominent and sophisticated form of "symbolic action," one that provides "equipment for living" by allowing us to try out hypothetical strategies for dealing with the endless variety of human situations and experiences. Human society demands some principle of order, but the language and reason that create order can fall into rigid abstractions that can be destructive and violently imposed. Literature shows us an image of sacrifice, forgiveness, and flexibility that plays an important role in keeping society functioning flexibly. Burke's writing is extensive, complex and wide ranging, but also unique and uniquely important among current critical approaches. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993), American literary theorist and philosopher. Photograph by Oscar White, March 14, 1969. By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29768455
Œuvres de Kenneth Burke
A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives 15 exemplaires
The humane particulars : the collected letters of William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Burke (2003) 6 exemplaires
Book of Moments. Poems, 1915-1954 4 exemplaires
Late Poems, 1968-1993: Attitudinizing Verse-wise, While Fending For One's Selph, And In A Style Somewhat Artificially… (2005) 3 exemplaires
The White Oxen & Other Stories 2 exemplaires
A dramatistic view of the origins of language. Reprint from the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol.39, No.1, February… 1 exemplaire
Genius and Character 1 exemplaire
The First Three Chapters of Genesis 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dream Child as Seen Through the Critics' Looking-glasses, 1865-1971 (1971) — Contributeur — 117 exemplaires
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributeur — 83 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Burke, Kenneth Duva
- Date de naissance
- 1897-05-05
- Date de décès
- 1993-11-19
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Andover, New Jersey, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Andover, New Jersey, USA
- Études
- Peabody High School
Ohio State University
Columbia University - Professions
- literary theorist
philosopher
editor
music critic
professor - Relations
- Chapin, Harry (grandson)
- Organisations
- The Dial
The Nation
Bennington College
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1951) - Prix et distinctions
- Dial Award (1928)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1935)
National Medal for Literature (1981)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1946)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 35
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 1,680
- Popularité
- #15,304
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 67
- Langues
- 2
One of the major themes of Burke's criticism is "victimage". He finds in food, in character, in Commandments, and in the aching words.
Chapter Six is entitled "I, Eye, Ay--Concerning Emerson's Early Essay on 'Nature,' and the Machinery of Transcendence". Burke finds the Essay more than a Happiness Pill. He understands the charm and buoyancy of it, and concurs with the accuracy of naming it "transcendence". [187]
In "The Seven Offices" Burke sought to decide how few functions people really performed for each other. The first six are: Govern (rule); Serve (material provision); Defend; Teach; Entertain; Cure. He later added Console.
After comparing Emerson's medicine to Socratic, as shredded by Nietzsche's Twilight, Burke loves Emerson for his "idealistic upsurge". "Even in those days, I feel sure, both he and Whitman suspected they might be whistling in the dark. But they loved the gesture (if whistling is a gesture)...Emerson's scheme for transcendence ... propounded before his fellow townsmen had lost their sense of a happy, predestined future."
There was not yet the crying need to turn to, and begin hoarding, relics of an "ancestral past", like "an unregenerate Southerner's attic, with its trunkload of Confederate money". [192]
As if studying Scripture, which of course it is, Burke approaches the form of the essay, "Nature". He examines its terministic conditions, the material sensations he calls "apocalyptic" in the sense that word means "revealing", and that is how Emerson uses the word. He traces Emerson's resonant examination of "facts seen in light of ideas". Setting up Supernature, or stylistic bridges (intermediaries) for a dialectic theology. You make the distinction between "God" and "Man", bridged as "God-Man".
Burke invokes the three canticles of the Divine Comedy which end on references to the stars, and proposes calling Emerson "starry-eyed". [193] Emerson become transparent eyeball, as he spoke of the universe through which the light of a higher law shines. [194]
He recognizes Emerson's transcendentalism as disciplinary view of Social Structure as Nature. The discordant "Property and its filial systems of debt and credit"--which grind the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius--is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and "is needed most by those who suffer from it most". [196] A preceptor!… (plus d'informations)