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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454741103321

Autore

Biesecker Barbara A

Titolo

Addressing postmodernity [[electronic resource] ] : Kenneth Burke, rhetoric, and a theory of social change / / Barbara A. Biesecker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8173-8259-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 p.)

Collana

Studies in rhetoric and communication

Disciplina

801.95092

809.9113

809/.9113

Soggetti

Postmodernism (Literature)

Rhetoric

Literature and society

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-120) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Entering the Fray; 2. Reading Ontology in A Grammar of Motives; 3. A Rhetoric of Motives, or Toward an Ontology of the Social; 4. Further Speculations on the Dialectic: The Rhetoric of Religion; 5. From Communicative Action to Rhetorical Invention; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Biesecker reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change.In Addressing Postmodernity, Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of symbols.  In discerning the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of human beings and rhetoric in it, Biesecker turns to the seminal work of Kenneth Burke.Through a close reading of Burke's major works, A Grammar of Motives, A Rhetoric of M