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The Philosophy of Literary Form

The Philosophy of Literary Form

Burke, Kenneth

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0520024834
ISBN13: 9780520024830
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Aug 27 1974
Pages: 463
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the ForewordThese pieces are selections from work done in the Thirties, a decade so changeable that I at first thought of assembling them under the title, While Everything Flows. Their primary interest is in speculation on the nature of linguistic, or symbolic, or literary action--and in a search for more precise ways of locating or defining such action. Words are aspects of a much wider communicative context, most of which is not verbal at all. Yet words also have a nature peculiarly their own. And when discussing them as modes of action, we must consider both this nature as words in themselves and the nature they get from the non-verbal scenes that support their acts. I shall be happy if the reader can say of this book that, while always considering words as acts upon a scene, it avoids the excess of environmentalist schools which are usually so eager to trace the relationships between act and scene that they neglect to trace the structure of the act itself.

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