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
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.