Burke, War, Words - Rhetoricizing Dramatism

Informationen zum Autor M. Elizabeth Weiser is an assistant professor of English at the Ohio State University at Newark, where she teaches rhetorical theory, style, argument, and literary publishing. An editor of the KB Journal, her writing on Burke has received awards from Rhetoric Review and the Kenneth Burke Society. Klappentext For Weiser establishing the origins of dramatism offers a model for enhancing our understanding of other rhetorical theories as well as a specific renewal of purpose for dramatism as an action-oriented tool to engage intellectuals in our conflicted age as Burke had envisioned in his. Zusammenfassung Reinserts Kenneth Burke's theory of dramatism into the social milieu from which it originated! fostering an understanding of how this concept of motivation was itself motivated by war and criticism. This title draws from published and unpublished communications between Burke and the diverse and divergent literati of his era.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Weiser, M Elizabeth Weiser, M. Elizabeth Weiser, M.Elizabeth Weiser
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2008
• EAN: 9781570037719
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-771-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric and Commun; Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric and Commun; Studies in Rhetoric & Communic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics