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Kenneth Burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary form. He did not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor was he reducible to any simple set of principles or ideas. He published widely, and is probably best known for two of his classic works, A Rhetoric of Motive and Philosophy of Literary... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Myth and Society; Chapter 2 Myth and Literary Criticism; Chapter 3 Myth and “Ritual Drama”; Chapter 4 Myth and “Victimage”; Chapter 5 Myth and Ecology; Conclusion;
Biography
Laurence Coupe is Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Myth (1997) and editor of The Green Studies Reader (2000).
