KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society Apr 2009 web Open Access

Ad Verbum Purgandum or Literally Purgation

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This paper discusses an alternative way to look at the epigram from Burke’s Grammar of Motives and proposes to interpret it under the light of his own theorization of Dramatism and cathartic use of symbolic action. The paper draws a linguistic connection between the terms “war and “beauty” treating them as interchangeable double metaphors. Burke’s awareness of this was adumbrated in his own writings and in the manuscript of the Symbolic .

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KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society
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2009-04
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