On Human Nature
Subtitle: A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984
Contributors: William H. Rueckert (Editor); Angelo Bonadonna (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 6, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780520219199
Subjects: Biography: general; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; Literary Criticism; Essays; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; Historiography; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Criticism; Philosophy
First sentence: After 1966, Kenneth Burke certainly changed what he was doing.
Description: "On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke was an innovative and original thinker who worked at the intersection of sociology, psychology, literary theology, and semiotics. This book, a selection of fourteen representative pieces of his productive later years, addresses many important themes Burke tackled throughout his career such as logology (his attempt to find a universal language theory and methodology), technology, and ecology.

The essays also elaborate Burke's notions about creativity and its relation to stress, language and its literary uses, and the relation of mind and body."--Jacket.