Language as Symbolic Action
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Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method is a book by Kenneth Burke, published in 1966 by the University of California Press. As indicated by the title, the book, Burke's 16t
Language as Symbolic Action
William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. In his five-volume
Language as Symbolic Action
…reality. The 11 chapters comprising Part II engage in rhetorical criticism of, among others, Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, the Oresteia, Faust, and William Carlos Williams. Part III consists of eight chapters. One of the more significant of these is chapter six, entitled “Medium as Message.” Burke takes one of his peers…
Portrait by Man Ray, 1924
A selection of William Carlos Williams poetry on a plaque in New York City
I saw the figure 5 in gold. Charles Demuth, 1928. The Great Figure Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city. William Carlos Williams 1920.
This Is Just to Say (wall poem in The Hague)