LANGUAGE AS SYMBOLIC ACTION: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method

Language As Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 1-514

  Burke, Kenneth ^a  

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References (17)

1. For complete text, see Part Two, Chap. 2, pp. 115-124.
2. In our chapter 'The Thinking of the Body" (pp. 308-343) these speculations are developed more fully.
3. The substance of this essay was presented in a colloquium on 'Theology and Literature" at Drew University, April, 1962.
4. From "Introduction To What," Location, Spring 1963.
5. This point is discussed in my article, "On Catharsis, or Resolution," in the Summer 1959 issue of the Kenyan Review.
6. The lines are reprinted in the author's Book of Moments: Poems 1915-1954 (Hermes Publications, Los Altos, California, 1955).
7. The White Oxen, and Other Stories. Albert and Charles Boni, 1924, O.P.
8. It has been reprinted in selections of my work Perspectives by Incongruity, edited by Stanley Edgar Hyman.
9. In our Grammar of Motives (pp. 431-432)
10. Quoted from "Dialectician's Prayer," reprinted in my Book of Moments (Hermes Publications, Los Altos, California, 1955), p. 41.
11. On scene-agent ratio see my Grammar of Motives, Meridian edition, pp. 7 ff.
12. Much of this material parallels part of a paper on "Dramatism" presented at the Second International Symposium on Communication Theory and Research, 1966, the proceedings to be published in a volume edited by Lee Thayer and issued by Spartan Books, Washington, D. C.
13. Fritz Mauthner, Worterbuch der Philosophic (Munich & Leipzig, 1910), II, 149-156.
14. Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar, Rev. and Enlarged by James Bradstreet Greenough, assisted by George L. Kittredge (Boston & London, 1892), n., p. 361.
15. Hopkins Review, Winter, 1952, my article '"Ethan Brand': A Preparatory Investigation."
16. In the Modern Library edition it is on pp. 192-93.
17. I had such speculations in the back of my mind when I wrote the previously mentioned review of the Brooks-Wimsatt volume, Literary Criticism: A Short History along with Northrop Fryes Anatomy of Criticism. (See 'The Encyclopaedic, Two Kinds of," in Poetry, February, 1958.)