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11 unusual facts about Kenneth Burke


Consubstantiality

“Consubstantiality,” in rhetoric, is often associated with Kenneth Burke.

Consubstantiation

Literary critic Kenneth Burke's dramatism takes this concept and utilizes it in secular rhetorical theory to look at the dialectic of unity and difference within the context of logology.

Identification in Burkean rhetoric

Identification is a key term for the discussion of rhetoric in Kenneth Burke′s A Rhetoric of Motives.

Jim Chapin

He was the father of ten children, including musicians Harry, Tom (not to be confused with Thomas Chapin) and Steve Chapin, who are also the children of Elspeth Hart, the daughter of Kenneth Burke.

Kenneth Burke

In later life, his New Jersey farm was a popular summer retreat for his extended family, as reported by his grandson Harry Chapin, a contemporary popular song artist.

He also wrote the song "One Light in a Dark Valley," later recorded by his grandson Harry Chapin.

Burke, like many twentieth century theorists and critics, was heavily influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Language As Symbolic Action

Language As Symbolic Action is a book by Kenneth Burke, published in 1966 by the University of California Press.

Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method was Kenneth Burke’s sixteenth published work.

Metaphoric criticism

The notion that metaphors demonstrate worldviews originates in the work of Kenneth Burke and has been taken up further in the cognitive sciences, particularly by George Lakoff.

Occupational psychosis

The most accessible introduction to this concept is Chapter III of Kenneth Burke's Permanence and Change.


Andover, New Jersey

Kenneth Burke (1897–1993), cultural and literary critic and philosopher; Harry and Tom Chapin's grandfather.

Harold Garfinkel

This brought him in contact with some of the most prominent scholars of the day in the behavioral, informational, and social sciences including: Gregory Bateson, Kenneth Burke, Paul Lazarsfeld, Frederick Mosteller, Philip Selznick, Herbert A. Simon, and John von Neumann.