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Kenneth Burke and the method of dramatism
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For instance, it is possible that sociologists have read the work of Kenneth Burke and found it neither important nor interesting, and indeed, for any expository treatment of the sociological importance of Burke in other journals.Abstract:
It is possible that sociologists have read the work of Kenneth Burke and found it neither important nor interesting, a One searches in vain for any expository treatment of his work in those journals read by sociologists, or indeed, for any expository treatment of the sociological importance of Burke in other journals. Yet Burke has been lurking in sociologists' footnotes since the 1930s, and recently his system, "Dramatism," has been promoted to equal rank with "Symbolic Interaction" and "Social Exchange" in the coverage given to these aspects of "Interaction" in the InternationalEneyelopedia o f the Social Scienees. ~ What are we to make of this?read more
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Re‐Engineering the Sense of Self: the Manager and the Management Guru*
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Management gurus and management fashions : a dramatistic inquiry
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The Interpretation of Dreams
TL;DR: In 1909, G. Stanley Hall invited me to Clark University, in Worcester, to give the first lectures on psychoanalysis as discussed by the authors, which was followed by further translations of my writings.
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A Grammar of Motives.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss ways of placing objects in a way that they can be placed according to the philosophy of the Philosophic Schools and the Dialectic of CONSTITUTIONS.
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A Grammar of Motives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss ways of placing objects in a way that they can be placed according to the philosophy of the Philosophic Schools and the Dialectic of CONSTITUTIONS.
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A Rhetoric of Motives
TL;DR: As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began to discriminate a "rhetorical" or persuasive component in literature, and...