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A Grammar of Motives

Kenneth Burke author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:1st Jul '92

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Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it? An answer to that question is the subject of this book. The book is concerned with the basic forms of through which, in accordance with the nature of the world as all men necessarily experience it, are exemplified in the attributing of motives. These forms of though can be embodied profoundly or trivially, truthfully or falsely. They are equally present in systematically elaborated or metaphysical structures, in legal judgements, in poetry and fiction, in political and scientific works, in news and in bits of gossip offered at random."

ISBN: 9780520015449

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 36mm

Weight: 726g

554 pages