Kenneth Burke

Laurence Coupe

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KENNETH BURKE: FROM MYTH TO ECOLOGY is the first full-length study of a remarkable thinker's approach to those founding narratives, those essential structures of thought, which cannot be credited to any one individual but rather belong to the whole community.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 16 mai 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602354562
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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KENNETH BURKE

FROM MYTH TO ECOLOGY

LAURENCE COUPE

Kenneth Burke: From Myth to Ecology

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Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 19501955 Kenneth Burke. Edited by William H. Rueckert (2007)

Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare Kenneth Burke. Edited by Scott L. Newstok (2007)

Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 19591987 Edited by William H. Rueckert (2003)

KENNETH BURKE

From Myth to Ecology

Laurence Coupe

Parlor Press Anderson, South Carolina www.parlorpress.com

Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, USA

© 2013 by Parlor Press. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America on acidfree paper.

Kenneth Burke: From Myth to Ecologywas published in a first edition by Taylor & Francis Books (Routledge) in 2005 asKenneth Burke on Myth: An Introduction.

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Coupe, Laurence, 1950 Kenneth Burke on myth : an introduction I Laurence Coupe p. cm.  (Theorists of myth) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0415936403 (alk. paper) 1. Burke, Kenneth, 1897Contributions in concept of myth. 2. Myth History20th century. I. Title. II. Theorists of myth

BL304.C67 2004 201 ‘.3’092dc22

ISBN Paperback: 9781602354555 ISBN Adobe eBook: 9781602354562

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2004050899

Cover design by David Blakesley. Cover photograph: “Vernal Falls, Yosemite” by Matthew Blakesley Production editing by Meagan Blakesley. Parlor Press QR Code designed by Chelsie Messenger, Elizabeth Blasi, and Zachary Zweibon

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Myth and Society

2. Myth and Literary Criticism

3. Myth and “Ritual Drama”

4. Myth and “Victimage”

5. Myth and Ecology

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to Robert Segal, wo commissioned te original book, and to David Blakesley, wo suggested tis paperback version and ten made it appen. Tanks are due also to Patrick Curry for is elpful comments on part of te manuscript. I am indebted, as ever, to my wife Margaret.

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