Permanence and Change
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20th century american history
A01=Kenneth Burke
american criticism
Author_Kenneth Burke
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communication
early 20th century theory
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great depression
human communication
ideal cooperation
interpretation
labor studies
leisure class
literature
motives
occupational psychosis
patterns of conflict
philosophy
piety
pleasure principle
rationalization
romantic solutions
scapegoat
secular conversions
social structures
social theory
sociology
stylistic appeal
symbolic labor
theory of communication
trained incapacity
veblen
wealth inequality
Product details
- ISBN 9780520041462
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 137 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 1984
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Permanence and Change was written and first published in the depths of the Great Depression. Attitudes Toward History followed it two years later. These were revolutionary texts in the theory of communication, and, as classics, they retain their surcharge of energy. Permanence and Change treats human communication in terms of ideal cooperation, whereas Attitudes Towards History characterizes tactics and patterns of conflict typical of actual human associations. It is in Permanence and Change that Burke establishes in path-breaking fashion that form permeates society just as it does poetry and the arts. Hence, his master idea that forms of art are not exclusively aesthetic: the cycles of a storm, the gradations of a sunrise, the stages of an epidemic, the undoing of Prince Hamlet are all instances of progressive form. This new edition of Permanence and Change reprints Hugh Dalziel Duncan's long sociological introduction and includes a substantial new afterward in which Burke reexamines his early ideas in light of subsequent developments in his own thinking and in social theory.
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).
