The war of words /

"When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated "Motivorum" project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. While the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, remains unfinished and unpublished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993 (Author)
Other Authors: Burke, James Anthony, 1937- (Editor), Jensen, Kyle, 1981- (Editor), Selzer, Jack (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The war of words
  • Introduction
  • The devices
  • Scientific rhetoric
  • [Notes toward] the rhetoric of bureaucracy
  • [Notes toward] the rhetorical situation
  • Appendix 1 : facsimile of outline of "The rhetorical situation"
  • Appendix 2 : Foreword (to end on)
  • Appendix 3 : Facsimile of "Foreword (to end on)"
  • List of textual emendations, with explanatory notes.