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ENG 8700: A Grammar of Motives (Part 1)
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A GRAMMAR OF MOTIVES
The Motives Trilogy
- Planned as three volumes: Grammar, Rhetoric, Symbolic
- Only two completed before Burke's death
- Posthumous collection: Essays Toward A Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955 (2007)
MOTIVES
TRILOGY
Dramatism +
the Pentad
DRAMATISM
Images; Blueprinting Rhetoric
Antinomies of Definition
DEFINITIONS
- The meaning/signification of terms (and concepts, trends) is unstable and this can be demonstrated by the forcing antinomies or paradoxes in taking a term's meaning to be too explicit or restrictive
- By nature of context, terms include that which they seem to exclude, "trends" indicate something may happen - or not happen.
- "A poem, by shifting the imagery of its metaphors, permit us to contemplate the subject from the viewpoitn of varios objects" (33)
Burke on Agency
AGENCY
Purpose
- Why do people (think) they do what they do?
- Purpose can be either pragmatic or mystical, both categories narrow the "motivational circumference" (297) - pragmatism by avoiding reference to purpose and mysticism by elevating purpose to a transcendent level
PURPOSE
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