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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778047903321

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

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



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Record Nr.

UNISA996390104503316

Autore

Shakespeare William <1564-1616.>

Titolo

The tragedie of King Richard the third [[electronic resource] ] : Conteining his treacherous plots against his brother Clarence: the pitiful murther of his innocent nephewes: his tyrannicall vsurpation: with the whole course of the detested life, and most deserued death. As it hath beene lately acted by the Right honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. By William Shake-speare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Thomas Creede, for Andrew Wise, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Angell, 1598

Descrizione fisica

[94] p

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In verse.

Signatures: A-M⁴ (-M4).

Running title reads: The tragedie of Richard the third.

Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113