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Project

Burkes Reading Method in the Force Field between the 'Intrinsic' and 'Extrinsic' Apporach towards Literature
Code
3F018907
Duration
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
I.A. Richards René Girard Kenneth Burke cultural science Cleanth Brooks literary sciences
 
Project description
 

This research project aims at an analysis of Kenneth Burke's method of reading against the background of the force field between 'intrinsic' and 'extrinsic' approaches towards literature. Based on a corpus of sample readings confonting burke's analysis of a number of literature texts with contemporary readings by Brooks, Richards and Girard, I will try to demonstrate how Burke has dealt with this force field, and how it has influenced hist thought.