A Grammar of Motives¶
Burke, K. (1945). A Grammar of Motives. Prentice-Hall.
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- Burkean Pentad
- The Burkean pentad is Kenneth Burke's five-term grammar for diagnosing the motive attributed to a human act: every interpretable act can be parsed into act (what was done), scene (the situational background in which it occurred), agent (who did it), Agency (by what means or instrument), and purpose (toward what end)
This sourceBurke's pentadic glosses of scene as "the background of the act, the situation in which it" occurs and of agency as the "instrument" used. Burke's “range of all the ratios” that the five pentadic terms generate. Burke's treatment of the ratios licensed by the five pentadic terms. Kenneth Burke's A Grammar of Motives, first published in 1945.
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“and another that names the scene (the [background] of the act, the situation in which it”
- The Burkean pentad is Kenneth Burke's five-term grammar for diagnosing the motive attributed to a human act: every interpretable act can be parsed into act (what was done), scene (the situational background in which it occurred), agent (who did it), Agency (by what means or instrument), and purpose (toward what end)
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