Kenneth Burke
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Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke is the largest collection of Burke's book reviews, most of them reprinted here for the first time. In these reviews, as he engages famous works of poetry, fiction, criticism, and social science from the early 20th century, Burke demonstrates the prominent methods and interests of his influential career.
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Esta colección, hecha por el autor, incluye una muestra de la riqueza y diversidad de sus intervenciones, así como uno de sus trabajos teóricos fundamentales, con una introducción del profesor Javier García, excelente conocedor de Burke. Ampliamente anotada, servirá para que este personaje fascinante pase a formar parte de nuestro mundo cultural.
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Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955. ESSAYS TOWARD A SYMBOLIC OF MOTIVES, 1950¬-1955 contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy, which began with A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). In these essays-some of which appear here in print for the first time-Burke offers his most precise and elaborated account of his dramatistic poetics, providing readers with representative...
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Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Change, written by American literary theorist Kenneth Burke, was first published in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression. Burke followed this with Attitudes Toward History followed just two years later. His texts proved to be revolutionary in the theory of communication, and, as classics, retain their surcharge of energy.
Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Change treats human communication in terms of...
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These letters show the development of Burke's thought in the last thirty or so years of his life, when he remained remarkably productive not only as a correspondent but as a critic and traveling scholar. Rueckert became for Burke both student and "co-conspirator," with Burke himself playing the roles of teacher, mentor, father, and peer. While Burke corresponded for many years with Malcolm Cowley, William Carlos Williams, Hugh Duncan, and others,...
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This volume gathers and annotates all of the Shakespeare criticism, including previously unpublished notes and lectures, by the maverick American intellectual Kenneth Burke (1897—1993). Burke's interpretations of Shakespeare have had an impressive influence on important lines of contemporary scholarship, playwrights and directors have been stirred by his dramaturgical investigations, and many readers outside academia have enjoyed his ingenious dissections...
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A crime goes wrong, a burglary backfires. Cat burglars Mickey Tanner and Finbar O'Toole flee - pursued by the force of the law and a gang of villains. They rough it out on Hampstead Heath and have a shoot-out in Waterlow Park that spills over into Highgate Cemetery. Mickey and Finbar run away from the monumental tomb of Karl Marx and on to an unkept area of the Highgate graveyward to hide behind the tombstones in their effort to evade the pursuers....
11) Masquerade
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[2021]
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A young girl fights to survive after a group of home invaders break into her house to steal her family's inestimable artwork.
13) Inhabited
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c2004
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The Russells think they have found a dream home, the perfect place to raise their kids, teenaged son Tyler and young Gina. Before long, the dream house becomes a nightmarish hell, as haunting events rattle the family.
14) Pali Road
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A young doctor wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is married to another man and living a life she can't remember. Her search for the truth to her past life will lead her to question everyone around her and her entire existence.