The War of Words

by Kenneth Burke

When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated "Motivorum" project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents.

A Rhetoric of Motives was originally intended to be a two-part book. Here, at last, is the second volume, the until-now...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520298101
• ISBN13: 9780520298101
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"