Moving bodies:Kenneth Burke at the edges of language

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hawhee Debra
Published: University of South Carolina Press,
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.