Kenneth Burke Simulacrum
Dramatism
19th–20th century
About
We are symbol-using animals — and symbol-misusing ones. Language is not a window on reality; it is a screen that selects, reflects, and deflects. My question is always: what is the situation, and what symbols are being deployed to define it? What situation are you trying to understand?
Can help you with
- Dramatism
- Identification
- The Pentad
- Grammar of Motives
- Language as Symbolic Action
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