Critic discusses language meaning
The arousing and fulfilling of expectations or desires through language was explained Monday by Kenneth Burke, author and literary critic, in a lecture in the Kansas Union.
Burke discussed "Language as Symbolic Action," and divided this action into several variations of literary and language forms for the purpose of arousing and fulfilling expectations.
HE SAID THAT his theory is that the world in general, whether literary or physical events, is a system of expectations, regardless of whether they prove to be fulfilled or not.
The forms he outlined fall into four categories:
- Progressive forms—the building and carrying out of expectations in a definite order; this includes both qualitative and negative expectations.
- Repetitive form—repetition of the identity of a character or rhyme scheme; the consistent maintaining of a principle throughout the work.
- Conventional form—form as form itself, as the function of the Chorus in Greek tragedy.
- Minor or incidental form—such as simple epigram, or even each sentence within a work; these are actually conventions in minor or simple form.
Kansas shivers in cold
CONCORDIA — (UPI) — A malevolent spring blizzard left northwest Kansas shivering today and turned its fury on targets farther east.
Weather men said, however, that the storm appeared to be losing part of its force.
Snow and freezing rain glazed highways in north-central Kansas today and drifts blocked some
principal routes. Power failed in several communities, knocking out furnace thermostats in 20-degree cold. Telephone service was limited in some areas to local calls.
12 Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 23, 1966
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