Moving bodies:Kenneth Burke at the edges of language
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University of South Carolina Press,
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Publisher Address: | Columbia, S.C. |
Publication Dates: | c2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Studies in rhetoric/communication |
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Carrier Form: | x, 215 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781570038099 (cloth : alk. paper) 1570038090 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | H026 |
CLC: |
H026.3 H05 |
Call Number: | H026.3/H391 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-204) and index. Introduction: "An excursion" -- Bodies as equipment for moving (from artist to audience) -- Burke's mystical method -- Burke on drugs : efficiency and the valuation of habits -- From the rhetoric of science to the science of rhetoric : the case of endocrinology -- Seeing "deviance" as inclination : Kretschmerian constitutions and bodily occupations -- Body language : Paget and gesture-speech theory -- Welcome to the beauty clinic -- Conclusion: Action in motion. |