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Burkean Dramatism

Burkean Dramatism is a rhetorical theory that frames human communication and action as a form of dramaturgical performance, in which individuals act according to a symbolic "pentad" of elements—act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose—to reveal the motives underlying discourse.

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Dramatism

Parents

Publications

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Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations

Charles Feidelson, William Rueckert · American Literature · 1964 · 152 citations

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Edmund Burke: His Political Philosophy

Roger Howell · History Reviews of New Books · 1974 · 110 citations

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Sickness as Cultural Performance: Drama, Trajectory, and Pilgrimage Root Metaphors and the Making Social of Disease

Ronald Frankenberg · International Journal of Health Services · 1986 · 99 citations

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The Symbolic Inference; Or, Kenneth Burke and Ideological Analysis

Fredric Jameson · Critical Inquiry · 1978 · 85 citations

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Encounters with Kenneth Burke

Choice Reviews Online · 1995 · 71 citations

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Authors

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  1. CM
    Christopher M. Reid

    Monash University, Australia

    2 publications · 51 citations

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  2. BL
    Bernard L. Brock

    Wayne State University, United States

    2 publications · 44 citations

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  3. WR
    William Rueckert

    University of Iowa, United States

    2 publications · 203 citations

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  4. BC
    Bryan Crable

    Villanova University, United States

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  5. EL
    Edward L. Murphy

    1 publications · 28 citations

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Institutions

22

  1. Sullivan University

    Louisville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  2. Villanova University

    Radnor, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  3. University of the Ozarks

    Clarksville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  4. Saint Mary's University

    Halifax, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    70 citations

  5. Minnesota State University Moorhead

    Moorhead, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

  6. The Dialogue

    Washington D.C., United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    96 citations

  7. California State University, Long Beach

    Long Beach, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  8. University of Waterloo

    Waterloo, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

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Venues

  1. Communication Quarterly

    CQ · 3 publications · 54 citations

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  2. Central States Speech Journal

    CSSJ · 2 publications · 61 citations

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  3. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 2 publications · 56 citations

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  4. Studies in Romanticism

    2 publications · 44 citations

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  5. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 2 publications · 93 citations

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