Equipment For Living by Kenneth Burke
A compact argument that literary and symbolic forms function as practical tools people use to make sense of life: texts provide metaphors, narratives, and rhetorical patterns that shape perception, direct attention, and offer models for action. It analyzes how language and symbols create frameworks—filters that promote identification, dramatize motives, and organize social relations—so that criticism becomes an inquiry into the symbolic resources that guide belief, decision, and conduct in everyday experience.
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