"Body-as-world": Kenneth Burke's answer to the postmodernist charges against sociology

Sociological Theory

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-96

  Bentz, Valerie Malhotra ^a   Kenny, Wade ^b  

^a FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Communication ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0031519270     PISSN: 07352751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0735-2751.00024     Document Type: Article

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