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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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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