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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Kenneth Burke
Born: May 5, 1897
Died: November 19, 1993 (aged 96)
Bio: Kenneth Duva Burke was an American literary theorist who had a powerful impact on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Burke was best known for his analyses based on the nature of knowledge.
Known for:
- Grammar of motives (1945)
- Language As Symbolic Action (1966)
- Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose (1935)
- The philosophy of literary form (1941)
- Attitudes toward history (1937)
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