Saturday, September 18, 2004

Kenneth Burke: Frameworks of Interpretation

"We discern situational patterns by means of the particular vocabulary of the cultural group into which we are born. Our minds, as linguistic products, are composed of concepts (verbally molded) which select certain relationships as meaningful. Other groups may select other relationships as meaningful. These relationships are not realities, they are interpretations of reality--hence different frameworks of interpretation will lead to different conclusions as to what reality is." (35)

Burke, Kenneth. Permanence and Change. (Bobbs-Merrill, 1965)

Literary Theory Biography

McLemee, Scott. "A Puzzling Figure in Literary Criticism Is Suddenly Central: Did Kenneth Burke, intellectual maverick, accidentally create cultural studies?"
Chronicle of Higher Education April 20, 2001

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