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Counter-Statement

Counter-Statement Paperback - 1968

by Burke, Kenneth

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University of California Press, 1968. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Counter-Statement
  • Author Burke, Kenneth
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 244
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1968
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0520001966I5N00
  • ISBN 9780520001961 / 0520001966
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.5 x 0.59 in (21.64 x 13.97 x 1.50 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 68020356
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809

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From the rear cover

"Burke has been asking central questions about life, literature, and method for 40 years, and his first collection of essays, Counter-Statement (1931), published in the same year as Wilson's Axel's Castle, helped to prove that American criticism was as vigorous and speculative as criticism on the Continent."--Geoffrey Hartman, Book Week "Burke's first book of criticism, Counter-Statement. . . set up most of the principles and procedures he later developed, termed 'counter' because they were then (as always) a minority view. . . .Here, minus the military metaphor, is the whole concept of works of art as 'strategies' for encompassing situations, that is, symbolic action. Besides its great importance for developing the concept of rhetoric in art and its hints of the later symbolic, Counter-Statement is chiefly interesting for the passion of its concern with art."--Stanley Edgar Hyman, in his The Armed Vision "In Burke's setting the imagination is nothing if not critical. It tries to deal with a situation by surrounding it with an army of rival images. Hence its motto: when in Rome, do as the Greeks. Counter-Statement is what a man can do with his own resources, in the music of ideas and argument."--The Times Literary Supplement

About the author

Kenneth Burke has been termed "simply the finest literary critic in the world, and perhaps the finest since Coleridge" (Stanley Edgar Hyman, The New Leader). Mr. Burke has published ten other works with the University of California Press: Towards a Better Life (1966); Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method (1966) Collected Poems, 1915-1967 (1968); The Complete White Oxen: Collected Short Fiction of Kenneth Burke (1968); A Grammar of Motives (1969); Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose (1984); The Philosophy of Literary Form (1974); A Rhetoric of Motives (1969); The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology (1970); and Attitudes Toward History, Third Edition (1984).

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