Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897–November 19, 1993) was an American literary critic and theorist, poet, essayist, and novelist. He is most well-known for his works A Rhetoric of Motives and A Grammar of Motives.¹

Works

• Counter-Statement (1931)
• “Towards a Better Life” (1932)
• Permanence and Change (1935)
• Attitudes Toward History (1937)
• The Rhetoric of Hitler’s “Battle” (1939)
• Philosophy of Literary Form (1941)
• A Grammar of Motives (1945)
• A Rhetoric of Motives (1950)
• Book of Moments (1955)
• Linguistic Approaches to Problems of Education (1955)
• The Rhetoric of Religion (1961)
• Language As Symbolic Action (1966)
• Collected Poems 1915-1967 (1968)
• Dramatism and Development (1972)
• Here and Elsewhere (2005)
• Late Poems: 1968-1993 (2005)
• Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives (2006)
• Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare (2007)

See also

• Kenneth Burke quotes

External Links

• The Kenneth Burke Society
• Kenneth Burke papers, 1915-2008 at Pennsylvania State University
• Goodreads profile

References

1. “Kenneth Burke.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed March 7, 2021.