On human nature : a gathering while everything flows, 1967-1984
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On human nature : a gathering while everything flows, 1967-1984
University of California Press, c2003
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Description
On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric of Motives, among other works, was an innovative and original thinker who worked at the intersection of sociology, psychology, literary theory, and semiotics. This book, a selection of fourteen representative pieces of his productive later years, addresses many important themes Burke tackled throughout his career such as logology (his attempt to find a universal language theory and methodology), technology, and ecology. The essays also elaborate Burke's notions about creativity and its relation to stress, language and its literary uses, the relation of mind and body, and more. Provocative, idiosyncratic, and erudite, On Human Nature makes a significant statement about cultural linguistics and is an important rounding-out of the Burkean corpus.
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. CREATIVITY 1. On Stress, Its Seeking, 1967 2. On "Creativity"--A Partial Retraction, 1971 3. Towards Helhaven: Three Stages of a Vision, 1971 4. Why Satire, With a Plan for Writing One, 1974 5. Realisms, Occidental Style, 1982 PART II. LOGOLOGY 6. Archetype and Entelechy, 1972 7. (Nonsymbolic) Motion/(Symbolic) Action, 1978 8. Theology and Logology, 1979 9. Symbolism as a Realistic Mode: "De-Psychoanalyzing" Logologized, 1979 PART III. THEORY 10. A Theory of Terminology, 1967 11. Towards Looking Back, 1976 12. Variations on "Providence," 1981 PART IV. K.B. 13. Eye-Crossing--From Brooklyn to Manhattan: An Eye-Poem for the Ear, 1973 14. Counter-Gridlock: An Interview with Kenneth Burke, 1980--81 Index
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