Perspectivism and form in drama: A Burkean analysis of Julius Caesar |
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| Authors: | Gary M Weier |
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| Institution: | Assistant Professor in the Speech Communication Department , Bob Jones University , Greenville, SC, 29614 |
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| Abstract: | This paper is a critical application of Kenneth Burke's notions of form and perspectivism. It argues for the potential of a complementary relationship between form and perspectivism in the appeal of rhetorical artifacts. Specifically, the essay claims that form is perspectival; it limits the possibilities for appropriate interpretations within a text. Perspectivism is formal; it cultivates a logic of anticipatory reasoning. This theoretical perspective is applied to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in the effort to illumine the rhetorical appeal of that work. |
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| Keywords: | Burkean criticism poetics psychology of form perspectivism Shakespeare Julius Caesar dramatistic argument |
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