Kenneth Burke’s Representative Anecdote & the Cult of the Kill
The final idea Burke had that was better than his Pentad was the Representative Anecdote. There are a few theories like this one floating around now, but aside ...
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Kenneth Burke’s Identification and Consubstantiality
Another in the line of “8 Burkean concepts that are better than the Pentad” are the paired concepts of Identification and Consubstantiality. For our...
Kenneth Burke’s Dramatism
Kenneth Burke was a literary theorist and philosopher perhaps best known for his Pentad. However, I–following in the tradition of Elizabeth Mechling, Ph.D...
Victor Raskin’s Script Theory
Presuppositions, “common sense,” and scripts In proposing Script Theory, a major model seen to support Incongruity theory, Linguist Victor Raskin no...
John C. Meyer’s Four Functions of Humor
John C. Meyer was interested in how people use humor – what their purpose is. Meyer’s first conception is that people can use humor to unite us or t...