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Kenneth Duva was born on May 5, 1897, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James Leslie and Lillyan May (Duva) Burke.
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This book marks Kenneth Burke’s breakthrough in criticism from the literary and aesthetic into social theory and the philosophy of history. In this volume we find Burke’s first entry into what he calls his theory of Dramatism; and here also is an important section on the nature of ritual.
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About this book Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it? An answer to that question is the subject of this book. The book is concerned with the basic forms of through which, in accordance with the nature of the world as all men necessarily experience it, are exemplified in the attributing of motives. These forms of though can be embodied profoundly or trivially, truthfully or falsely. They are equally present in systematically elaborated or metaphysical structures, in legal judgments, in poetry and fiction, in political and scientific works, in news and in bits of gossip offered at random."
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As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began to discriminate a "rhetorical" or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of language and human conduct. In A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950), Burke's conception of "symbolic action" comes into its own: all human activities—linguisitc or extra-linguistic—are modes of symbolizing; man is defined as the symbol-using (and -misusing) animal. The critic's job becomes one of the interpreting human symbolizing wherever he finds it, with the aim of illuminating human motivation. Thus the reach of the literary critic now extends to the social and ethical.
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Kenneth Duva was born on May 5, 1897, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James Leslie and Lillyan May (Duva) Burke.
Student, Ohio State University. Student, Columbia University. Doctor of Literature (honorary), Bennington College, 1966.
Doctor of Literature (honorary), Rutgers University, 1968. Doctor of Literature (honorary), Dartmouth College, 1970. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Fairfield University, 1970.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Rochester University, 1972. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Northwestern University, 1972. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Indiana State University, 1976.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Kenyon College, 1979. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Emory University, 1982. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Queens College, 1985.
Researcher, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, 1926-1927;
music critic, The Dial, 1927-1929;
editorial worker, Bureau Society Hygiene, 1928-1929;
visiting Professor of English, University of Chicago, 1949-1950;
lector psychology of literature form and on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, University of Chicago, 1938;
music critic, The Nation, 1934-1936;
lecturer on practice and theory of literature criticism, New School for Society Research, 1937;
educator course in theory and practice, literature criticism, Bennington College, 1943-1961;;
literature critic, Drew U., 1962, 64;
modern literature critic, Pennsylvania State University, 1963;
Regents professor, University of California-Santa Barbara, 1964-1965;
professor, Central Washington State College, 1966;
educator literature theory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967;
literature critic, Fannie Hurst visiting professor, Washington U., 1970-1971;
critic, Center for Humanities, Wesleyan University, 1972;
Andrew W. Mellon visiting Professor of English, U. Pittsburgh, 1974;
teacher seminar in literature criticism, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1975
teacher seminar in literature criticism, U. Nevada, Reno, 1976;
Walker-Ames visiting Professor of English, U. Washington, 1976. Fellow Center for Advanced Study Behavioral Sciences, 1957-1958. Visiting professor Graduate Institute Liberal Arts, Emory University, winters 1981-1985.
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(Classic tex on rhetorical motives.)
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Fellow Modern Language Association (honorary). Member American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts and Sciences (emeritus, award for contribution to humanities 1977, National Medal for Literature 1981), Kenneth Burke Society (eponymous founder).
Married Lily Mary Batterham, May 19, 1919 (divorced). Children: Jeanne Elspeth, Eleanor Duva, Frances Batterham. Married Elizabeth Batterham, December 18, 1933. Children: James Anthony, Kenneth Michael.