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The War of Words (Paperback)
Anthony Burke, Kyle Jensen, Jack Selzer; Kenneth Burke
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When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated "Motivorum" project in
the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the
third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of
Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become
canonical theoretical documents. A Rhetoric of Motives was
originally intended to be a two-part book. Here, at last, is the
second volume, the until-now unpublished War of Words, where Burke
brilliantly exposes the rhetorical devices that sponsor war in the
name of peace. Discouraging militarism during the Cold War even as
it catalogues belligerent persuasive strategies and tactics that
remain in use today, The War of Words reveals how popular news
media outlets can, wittingly or not, foment international tensions
and armaments during tumultuous political periods. This
authoritative edition includes an introduction from the editors
explaining the compositional history and cultural contexts of both
The War of Words and A Rhetoric of Motives. The War of Words
illuminates the study of modern rhetoric even as it deepens our
understanding of post-World War II politics.
With language we name and define all things, and by studying our
use of language, rhetoricians can provide an account of these
things and thus of our lived experience. The concept of the sacred,
however, raises the prospect of the existence of phenomena that
transcend the human and physical and cannot be expressed fully by
language. The sacred thus reveals limitations of rhetoric.
Featuring essays by some of the foremost scholars of rhetoric
working today, this wide-ranging collection of theoretical and
methodological studies takes seriously the possibility of the
sacred and the challenge it poses to rhetorical inquiry. The
contributors engage with religious rhetorics-Jewish, Jesuit,
Buddhist, pagan-as well as rationalist, scientific, and postmodern
rhetorics, studying, for example, divination in the Platonic
tradition, Thomas Hobbes's and Walter Benjamin's accounts of sacred
texts, the uncanny algorithms of Big Data, and Helene Cixous's
sacred passages and passwords. From these studies, new definitions
of the sacred emerge-along with new rhetorical practices for
engaging with the sacred. This book provides insight into the
relation of rhetoric and the sacred, showing the capacity of
rhetoric to study the ineffable but also shedding light on the
boundaries between them. In addition to the editors, the
contributors to this volume include Michelle Ballif, Jean Bessette,
Trey Conner, Richard Doyle, David Frank, Daniel M. Gross, Kevin
Hamilton, Cynthia Haynes, Steven Mailloux, James R. Martel, Jodie
Nicotra, Ned O'Gorman, and Brooke Rollins.
With language we name and define all things, and by studying our
use of language, rhetoricians can provide an account of these
things and thus of our lived experience. The concept of the sacred,
however, raises the prospect of the existence of phenomena that
transcend the human and physical and cannot be expressed fully by
language. The sacred thus reveals limitations of rhetoric.
Featuring essays by some of the foremost scholars of rhetoric
working today, this wide-ranging collection of theoretical and
methodological studies takes seriously the possibility of the
sacred and the challenge it poses to rhetorical inquiry. The
contributors engage with religious rhetorics—Jewish, Jesuit,
Buddhist, pagan—as well as rationalist, scientific, and
postmodern rhetorics, studying, for example, divination in the
Platonic tradition, Thomas Hobbes’s and Walter Benjamin’s
accounts of sacred texts, the uncanny algorithms of Big Data, and
Hélène Cixous’s sacred passages and passwords. From these
studies, new definitions of the sacred emerge—along with new
rhetorical practices for engaging with the sacred. This book
provides insight into the relation of rhetoric and the sacred,
showing the capacity of rhetoric to study the ineffable but also
shedding light on the boundaries between them. In addition to the
editors, the contributors to this volume include Michelle Ballif,
Jean Bessette, Trey Conner, Richard Doyle, David Frank, Daniel M.
Gross, Kevin Hamilton, Cynthia Haynes, Steven Mailloux, James R.
Martel, Jodie Nicotra, Ned O’Gorman, and Brooke Rollins.
Since its publication in 1950, Kenneth Burke's A Rhetoric of
Motives has been one of the most influential texts of theory and
criticism. Critics have discovered in its pages concepts that
reveal new dimensions of human motivation. And yet, despite its
obvious genius, critics have interpreted A Rhetoric of Motives as a
collection of provocations rather than a systematic treatment of
rhetoric. In this book, Kyle Jensen argues that the coherence in
Burke's thought has yet to be fully appreciated. Drawing on
unpublished drafts and voluminous correspondence, he reconstructs
Burke's drafting and revision process for A Rhetoric of Motives as
well as its recently discovered second volume, The War of Words.
Jensen's extensive archival analysis reveals that Burke relied on
the concept of myth to draw together the loose ends in his
argument. For Burke, all general theories of rhetoric are formed
and structured using mythic images and terms. By exploring what
Burke added and omitted, and by putting his writing process into
the context of daily life after the Second World War-including
Burke's attempts to clear the weeds from his Andover farm-Jensen
sheds new light on the key problems that Burke encountered and the
methods he used to overcome them. Kenneth Burke's Weed Garden is
essential for those who study Burke and the tradition of modern
rhetoric that he helped found.
Centuries ago the daughter of the first vampire was murdered. Now
walking in our world, making friends with creatures of the night,
she seeks her revenge.
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The War of Words (Hardcover)
Anthony Burke, Kyle Jensen, Jack Selzer; Kenneth Burke
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R2,700
Discovery Miles 27 000
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated "Motivorum" project in
the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the
third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of
Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become
canonical theoretical documents. A Rhetoric of Motives was
originally intended to be a two-part book. Here, at last, is the
second volume, the until-now unpublished War of Words, where Burke
brilliantly exposes the rhetorical devices that sponsor war in the
name of peace. Discouraging militarism during the Cold War even as
it catalogues belligerent persuasive strategies and tactics that
remain in use today, The War of Words reveals how popular news
media outlets can, wittingly or not, foment international tensions
and armaments during tumultuous political periods. This
authoritative edition includes an introduction from the editors
explaining the compositional history and cultural contexts of both
The War of Words and A Rhetoric of Motives. The War of Words
illuminates the study of modern rhetoric even as it deepens our
understanding of post-World War II politics.
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