Thesis (M.A.I.S.)--Oregon State University, 2003. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaf 85). Also available online.

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-112).

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English. / Bibliography: leaves 156-157.

This thesis analyzes Kenneth Burke's rhetoric of identification. I will examine the extent to which Burke's earliest critical writings, which focus on the suasive nature of literary forms, affected the writing of his later critical works, which deal with how language functions as a type of symbolic action. In his later texts, Burke breaks with his earlier concern with literary discourse by attempting to expound a critical theory that accounts for historical change, human motivation and the role of language in collective communities. He argues that language motivates people to identify with a certain sets of beliefs by transcending an opposing set of beliefs. Section One is an account of Burke's earlier conception of ideology in relation to his view of literary discourse. In Section Two the emphasis shifts toward a study of how Burke integrates his notion of ideology with his theory of a rhetoric of identification.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-92).

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-93).

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The purpose of this study is to apply Kenneth Burke's dramatistic method' of analysis to Tennessee Williams' play The Night of the Iguana.