Attitudes Toward History, Third edition

Kenneth Burke has been termed "simply the finest literary critic in the world, and perhaps the finest since Coleridge" (Stanley Edgar Hyman, The New Leader). Mr. Burke has published ten other works with the University of California Press: Towards a Better Life (1966); Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method (1966) Collected Poems, 1915-1967 (1968); The Complete White Oxen: Collected Short Fiction of Kenneth Burke (1968); A Grammar of Motives (1969); Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose (1984); The Philosophy of Literary Form (1974); A Rhetoric of Motives (1969); The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology (1970); and Attitudes Toward History, Third Edition (1984).

• INTRODUCTIONPART IACCEPTANCE AND REJECTIONCHAPTER 1: WILLIAM JAMES, WHITMAN, AND EMERSON "Acceptance" and "Passivity", Rejection, The Changing Emphasisof Frames, Sentimental Acceptance in FuturismCHAPTER II: POETIC CATEGORIESTragedy, Comedy, Humor, the Ode, Negative Emphasis: the Elegy,or Plaint, Satire, Burlesque, The Grotesque, Monasticismand the Transitional, The Didactic, Didactic "Transcendence" inHesiod, Didactic Transcendence in Eliot, Other Instances of TranscendenceCHAPTER III: THE DESTINY OF ACCEPTANCE FRAMES Discomfitures of RejectionCHAPTER IV: CONCLUSIONPART IITHE CURVE OF HISTORYCHAPTER 1: CHRISTIAN EVANGELISMCHAPTER II: MEDIAEVAL SYNTHESISCHAPTER 111: PROTESTANT TRANSITIONCHAPTER IV: NAIVE CAPITALISMCHAPTER v: EMERGENT COLLECTIVISMCHAPTER VI: COMIC CORRECTIVESPART IIIANALYSIS OF SYMBOLIC STRUCTURECHAPTER 1: GENERAL NATURE OF RITUALThe Tracking Down of Symbols, Synthesis and Analysis, Testsof Selectivity, Analytic "Radiations",  Main Components ofRitualCHAPTER 11: DICTIONARY OF PIVOTAL TERMSAlienation, Being Driven Into a Corner, Bridging Device, Bureaucratization of the Imaginative, Casuistic Stretching, Clust"rs, Communion, Control, Cues, Discounting, "Earning" One's World, Efficiency, Essence, Forensic, "Good Life", "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose",IdentityIdentification, Imagery, Legality, Lexicological, NcoMalthusianPrinciple, Opportunism, Perspective by Incongruity, Problem of Evil,Repossess the World, Rituals of Rebirth Salvation Device, Sect, Secular Prayer--or, extended: Character-building by Secular Prayer, Stealing Back and Forth of Symbols,Symbolic Mergers, Symbols of Authority,TranscendenceCONCLUSIONAFTERWORD TO SECOND EDITIONAPPENDIX: THE SEVEN OFFICESAFTERWORD: ATTITUDES TOWARD HISTORY:IN RETROSPECTIVE PROSPECT