Kenneth Burke biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Kenneth Burke

Author Name:

Kenneth Burke

Born As:

Kenneth Burke

Other Names:

Kenneth Burke

Born:

5 May 1897

Died:

19 Nov 1993




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Selected works:

Counter-Statement - 1931
Permanence and Change - 1935
Attitudes Toward History - 1937
Philosophy of Literary Form - 1939
A Grammar of Motives - 1945
A Rhetoric of Motives - 1950
The Rhetoric of Religion - 1961
Language as Symbolic Action - 1966
Dramatism and Development - 1972
Here and Elsewhere - 2005
Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives - 2006
Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare - 2007
Full bibliography of Burke's writings.                          
Wife One  Lily Mary Batterman, three children, Eleanor, Elspeth and  France .
Wife Two Elizabeth Batterman, two children, Michael and Anthony.