03103nam 2200721Ia 450 991045474110332120200520144314.00-8173-8259-3(CKB)1000000000774906(EBL)454511(OCoLC)424521220(SSID)ssj0000097233(PQKBManifestationID)11121986(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000097233(PQKBWorkID)10113798(PQKB)10179829(SSID)ssj0000356275(PQKBManifestationID)12116724(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000356275(PQKBWorkID)10349084(PQKB)11306267(MiAaPQ)EBC454511(MdBmJHUP)muse8929(Au-PeEL)EBL454511(CaPaEBR)ebr10309818(EXLCZ)99100000000077490619961121d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAddressing postmodernity[electronic resource] Kenneth Burke, rhetoric, and a theory of social change /Barbara A. BieseckerTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc19971 online resource (138 p.)Studies in rhetoric and communicationDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1063-0 0-8173-0874-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-120) and index.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; IndexBiesecker 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 MStudies in rhetoric and communication.Postmodernism (Literature)RhetoricLiterature and societyLiterature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Postmodernism (Literature)Rhetoric.Literature and society.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.801.95092809.9113809/.9113Biesecker Barbara A1040112MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454741103321Addressing postmodernity2462737UNINA