Thanks Rick & all the other friends of Burke who took the time to write--all 8 of you in the last 2 hours! Pretty good service from a listserv, eh? Regards, Will > It's the opening sentence of "The Nature of Form," in "Lexicon Rhetoricae" > in _Counter-Statement_. Its action was to move form from the (object) > realm of text to the (human) realm of psychology, hence to make it a > crucial aspect of symbolic action. Later psycholinguistic theories of > reading (such notions as anticipation, closure) seem to me to parallel and > confirm Burke's action in these sentences. > Rick > > At 04:00 PM 2/22/99 -0800, you wrote: > >A semi-urgent request: can anyone out there (Rick?) give me > >the citation information for Kenneth Burke's famous definition > >of form as "an arousing and fulfillment of desires. A work has > >form in so far as one part of it leads a reader to anticipate > >another part, to be gratified by the sequence." If you can't > >find the quotation, I guess it's still worthwhile putting up > >on the net to read again, eh? > >Sorry to clutter your screens. Will > > > > < < W.F. Garrett-Petts > > > > > > English & Modern Languages ._______ > > UCC, 900 McGill Rd | \ / | Voice: (250) 828-5248 > > Box 3010, Kamloops B.C. --|.O.|.O.|______. FAX: (250) 371-5697 > > B.C. V2C 5N3 Canada.__).-| = | = |/ \ | E-mail: [log in to unmask] > > >__) (.'---`.)Q.|.Q.|--. http://www.cariboo.bc.ca > > \\___// = | = |-.(__ > > `---'( .---. ) (__< > > \\.-.// > > `---' > > < < Writing is a Performance Art > > > > < < W.F. Garrett-Petts > > English & Modern Languages ._______ UCC, 900 McGill Rd | \ / | Voice: (250) 828-5248 Box 3010, Kamloops B.C. --|.O.|.O.|______. FAX: (250) 371-5697 B.C. V2C 5N3 Canada.__).-| = | = |/ \ | E-mail: [log in to unmask] >__) (.'---`.)Q.|.Q.|--. http://www.cariboo.bc.ca \\___// = | = |-.(__ `---'( .---. ) (__< \\.-.// `---' < < Writing is a Performance Art > >