By Kenneth Burke
"Probes the character of linguistic or symbolic motion because it pertains to particular novels, performs, and poems"
First version from 1941. i feel the 1974 model is a piece varied, perhaps a brand new introduction.
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No And company it keeps" in the utterances of a given speaker or writer. Odets' "prizefight" is not Joe Louis's. relations as revealed If you tracked down by the cluster in which a all inter- word has membership, you would dissolve symbolism into an of particulars. The "symbolic" attribute is The title is a kind of "first infinity like the title of a chapter; the particulars are like the details that chapter. " 35 out a PHILOSOPHY OF LITERARY FORM LEVELS OF SYMBOLIC ACTION The various levels of symbolic action that for, in the analysis of poem as we might look enactment, might be cate- gorized as follows: The (i) Symbolic bodily or biological level.
Who Yet Of shall tell — Say, I had me, that each one and these ten thousand lives is life, Made room for these him! " (we should also also applied to the water snakes, as he impulsively sees by the Mariner them in their transubstantiated identity, their evil origin transcended into goodness). To sum up, as illustration of the way in which these various terms could, for our purposes, gether as aspects of synecdoche: woman A all be brought to- house lived in by a would be "representative" of the woman who was "identified" with it (i.
The choice here is it up in the name it up a a dif- of planned not a choice between magic and no magic, but a choice between magics that vary in their degree of approximation to the truth. In both these magics, for instance, there implied tion is in the fiat) is usually an assumption (or to the effect that increased industrial produc- itself a good. But when we recall that every increase consumption of natural resources could with equal relevance be characterized as a corresponding increase in the destruction of natural resources, we can glimpse the opportunity for a totally different magic here, that would up the situation by a different quality of namings.
