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Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory.
Kenneth Burke (born May 5, 1897, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.—died Nov. 19, 1993, Andover, N.J.) was an American literary critic who is best known for his rhetorically based analyses of the nature of knowledge and for his views of literature as “symbolic action,” where language and human agency combine.
Kenneth Burke. 1897–1993. Poet, essayist, novelist, and literary theorist Kenneth Burke was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the Ohio State University and Columbia University though he did not earn a degree.
Kenneth Burke’s Late Theory of History: The Personalistic and Instrumentalist Principles by Michael Feehan; Kenneth Burke and the Gargoyles of Language: Perspective by Incongruity and the Transvaluation of Values in Counter-Statement and Permanence and Change by Jeremy Cox
Jul 19, 2022 · Kenneth Burke was one of the intellectual giants of the early and mid-twentieth century – a true polymath, writing on a broad range of topics and engaging a broad set of audiences.
Nearly every handbook of critical theory acknowledges Kenneth Burke (1897?1993) to be the twentieth-century North American critic who was most ahead of his time.
Mar 28, 2008 · Nothing human is alien to Kenneth Burke. He is the least confined of modern critics. It is not simply that he writes about everything: he tries to encompass everything within a system or systems of explanation that have the effect of conservation.
