Moving bodies : Kenneth Burke at the edges of language / Debra Hawhee.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Main Author: Hawhee, Debra
Language:English
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2009], ©2009.
Series:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Subjects:
Burke, Kenneth, > 1897-1993.
Physical Description:x, 215 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: "An excursion"
  • Bodies as equipment for moving (from artist to audience)
  • Burke's mystical method
  • Burke on drugs : efficiency and the valuation of habits
  • From the rhetoric of science to the science of rhetoric : the case of endocrinology
  • Seeing "deviance" as inclination : Kretschmerian constitutions and bodily occupations
  • Body language : Paget and gesture-speech theory
  • Welcome to the beauty clinic
  • Conclusion: Action in motion.