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The War of Words

By Kenneth Burke, Anthony Burke (Editor), Kyle Jensen (Editor), Jack Selzer (Editor)
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By Kenneth Burke, Anthony Burke (Editor), Kyle Jensen (Editor), Jack Selzer (Editor)
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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 Here, at last, is the second volume, the until-now unpublished War of Words, where Burke brilliantly exposes the rhetorical devices ...

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