College English May 2001

“More than Lessons in How to Read”: Burke, Freud, and the Resources of Symbolic Transformation

Ellen Quandahl

Abstract

Argues that Kenneth Burke used “The Interpretation of Dreams,” as well as other works by Sigmund Freud, as a lesson on reading, taking over the central tropes of dreamwork and making them broadly dialectical rather than strictly psychoanalytic terms. Suggests that Freud’s “tropology” of dreaming is crucial for reading Burke.

Journal
College English
Published
2001-05-01
DOI
10.58680/ce20011224
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Closed
Topics
rhetorical theory multilingual writers

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