Addressing Postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change

by Barbara A. Biesecker

Book Overview

Reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change

In Addressing Postmodernity, Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of symbols. In discerning the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of human beings and rhetoric in it, Biesecker turns to the seminal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817310630
• ISBN13: 9780817310639
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"