Burke, War, Words: Rhetoricizing Dramatism

by M. Elizabeth Weiser and Elizabeth Weiser

A fresh approach to understanding Kenneth Burke's landmark cultural theory as a rhetorical response to war

In Burke, War, Words, M. Elizabeth Weiser reinserts Kenneth Burke's theory of dramatism into the social milieu from which it originated, fostering a new understanding of how this concept of motivation was itself motivated by war and criticism. Weiser's model of a new approach to historiography contextualizes

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157003771X
• ISBN13: 9781570037719
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"