Author
Kenneth Burke
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Publisher
University of California Press
Published
April 1970
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Author
Kenneth Burke
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of California Press
Published
April 1970
£35.37
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The Rhetoric of Religion
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"But the point of Burke's work, and the significance of his achievement, is not that he points out that religion and language affect each other, for this has been said before, but that he proceeds to demonstrate how this is so by reference to a specific symbolic context. After a discussion 'On Words and The Word,' he analysess verbal action in St. Augustine's Confessions. He then discusses the first three chapters of Genesis, and ends with a brilliant and profound 'Prologue in Heaven,' an imaginary dialogue between the Lord and Satan in which he proposes that we begin our study of human motives with complex theories of transcendence,' rather than with terminologies developed in the use of simplified laboratory equipment...Burke now feels, after some forty years of search, that he has created a model of the symbolic act which breaks through the rigidities of the 'sacred-secular' dichotomy, and at the same time shows us how we get from secular and sacred realms of action over the bridge of language...Religious systems are systems of action based on communication in society. They are great social dramas which are played out on earth before an ultimate audience, God.
But where theology confronts the developed cosmological drama in the 'grand style,' that is, as a fully developed cosmological drama for its religious content, the 'logologer' can be further studied not directly as knowledge but as anecdotes that help reveal for us the quandaries of human governance." (Hugh Dalziel Duncan from Critical Responses to Kenneth Burke, 1924 - 1966, edited by William H. Rueckert (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969)).
Author
Kenneth Burke
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of California Press
Published
April 1970
Weight
441g
Page Count
327
Dimensions
139 x 217 x 22 mm
ISBN
9780520016101
ISBN-10
0520016106
Eden Code
1192122
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Author/Creator: Kenneth Burke
ISBN: 9780520016101
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date: April 1970
Weight: 441g
Dimensions: 139 x 217 x 22 mm
Eden Code: 1192122