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Title: MOVING BODIES
KENNETH BURKE AT THE EDGES OF LANGUAGE
By: Debra Hawhee, Thomas W. Benson
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 1570038090
ISBN 13: 9781570038099
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS
Pub. date: 15 June, 2009
Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
Pages: 216
Description: Kenneth Burke may be best known for his theories of dramatism and of language as symbolic action, but few know him as one of the twentieth century's foremost theorists of the relationship between language and bodies. This title presents him as a major transdisciplinary theorist of the body.
Synopsis: This is a sophisticated study of how bodies and language move and are moved by each other. Kenneth Burke may be best known for his theories of dramatism and of language as symbolic action, but few know him as one of the twentieth century's foremost theorists of the relationship between language and bodies. "Moving Bodies" presents him as a major transdisciplinary theorist of the body. Debra Hawhee focuses on Burke's studies from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s while illustrating that his interest in reading the body as a central force of communication began early in his career and continued to inform his work over more than six decades. Burke examined the human body as a participant in thought rather than as the mind's binary Cartesian opposite, grappling with notions of physical form as a corporeal intellect, the mental and biological interwoven within one life.By exploring his extensive writings on the subject alongside revealing considerations of his life and his scholarship, Hawhee maps his recurring invocation of a variety of perspectives in order to theorize bodies and communication, including music, mysticism, endocrinology, evolution, speech-gesture theory, and speech-act theory, as well as his personal experiences with pain and illness. Hawhee shows that Burke's goal was to advance understanding of the body's relationship to identity, to the creation of meaning, and to the circulation of language. Her study brings to the fore one of Burke's most important and understudied contributions to language theory, and she establishes Burke as a pioneer in a field where investigations into affect, movement, and sense perception broaden understanding of physical ways of knowing.
Publication: US
Imprint: University of South Carolina Press
Returns: Returnable
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