{"product_id":"the-philosophy-of-literary-form-kenneth-burke-9780520024830","title":"The Philosophy of Literary Form","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kenneth Burke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520024834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520024830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/1974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Kenneth Burke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946691625215,"sku":"9780520024830","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0e3aebb8-260c-4d8c-bcf8-a1c5f7a1c0c8.jpg?v=1681514589","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-philosophy-of-literary-form-kenneth-burke-9780520024830","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}