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Kenneth Burke

Attitudes Toward History, Third edition

With a new afterword.
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978-0-520-04148-6
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434 pages,
June 1984, Available worldwide
Categories: Literary Studies; English Literature

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.