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Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Burke was best known for his analyses based on the nature of knowledge.
Kenneth Burke (born May 5, 1897, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.—died Nov. 19, 1993, Andover, N.J.) was an American literary critic who is best known for his rhetorically based analyses of the nature of knowledge and for his views of literature as “symbolic action,” where language and human agency combine.
Kenneth Burke. 1897–1993. Poet, essayist, novelist, and literary theorist Kenneth Burke was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the Ohio State University and Columbia University though he did not earn a degree. In 1941, W.H. Auden lauded Burke as "unquestionably the most brilliant and suggestive critic now writing in America."
Jul 19, 2022 · Abstract. Kenneth Burke was one of the intellectual giants of the early and mid-twentieth century – a true polymath, writing on a broad range of topics and engaging a broad set of audiences. Along with other graduate students who were taught by Louis Wirth at University of Chicago in the 1940s, Goffman read Burke’s Permanence and Change.
Nov 21, 1993 · Kenneth Burke, a philosopher of language whose criticism and theories had a major impact on many American writers and thinkers in the mid-20th century, died on Friday at his farm in Andover, N.J.
