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Kenneth Burke's weed garden : refiguring the mythic grounds of modern rhetoric / Kyle Jensen

Author
Jensen, Kyle, 1981-
Additional Titles
Weed garden
Published
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Physical Description
xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
An archive of motives. Lapsing into the unformed ; A modest propsal ; Part-to-whole relations ; The factors behind rhetoric ; The ideal opening ; Charting an upward and downward path ; A pause at the window ; Writing at the center of the universe ; Everything is nowhere -- A theory of motives. Mythic palingenesis ; Identification's dimensions ; Devices old and new ; Mythic historiography.
Summary
"Reconstructs Kenneth Burke's drafting and revision process for A Rhetoric of Motives and The War of Words, placing Burke's work in historical context and revealing his reliance on the concept of myth"--
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ISBN
9780271092928 (hardback)
0271092920
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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