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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Duncan, Hugh Dalziel. Language and literature in society. [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1953] (OCoLC)573523190 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hugh Dalziel Duncan |
| OCLC Number: | 2063499 |
| Description: | xv, 262 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Language and literature in society: Literature as great art -- Literature as magical art -- Literature as make-believe -- Literature as a social institution -- pt. 2. Methodological problems in the sociological analysis of symbolic material: The approaches of social science to the analysis of symbolic material -- Literature as equipment for action: Burke's dramatic conception -- Symbolic action as common ground for all action -- pt. 3. A specific sociological view of symbols: status and symbols: Persuasion and identification in rhetoric -- Symbols and authority -- Hierarchy and symbols in democratic society -- pt. 4. General bibliography: General bibliography. |
Table of Contents:
Pt. 1. Language and literature in society
I. Literature as great art 3
II. Literature as magical art 20
III. Literature as make-believe 42
IV. Literature as a social institution 58
Pt. 2. Methodological problems in the sociological analysis of symbolic material
V. The approaches of social science to the analysis of symbolic material 77
VI. Literature as equipment for action: Burke's dramatic conception 84
VII. Symbolic action as common ground for all action 93
Pt. 3. A specific sociological view of symbols: status and symbols
VIII. Persuasion and identification in rhetoric 103
IX. Symbols and authority 112
X. Hierarchy and symbols in democratic society 129
Pt. 4. General bibliography
General bibliography 143
Notes 217
Index 247
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