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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 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.
Best known for his volumes on literary theory, Burke is considered one of the founders of the New Criticism. His most famous theory, dramatism, emphasized how literature and semiotics influence human moral capacity. He also asserted that art takes precedence over politics and has an obligation to engage society.
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.
Nov 21, 1993 · Kenneth Burke, a philosopher of language whose criticism and theories had a major impact on many American writers and thinkers in the mid-20th century, died on Friday at his farm in...
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.
