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Dramatistic Approach

FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS. Assumptions about human beingsBiological potential?as humans have needs for food, shelter, mates, rest, air, water, etc.. Burke uses the term ?motion" to describe the human being as a sheerly biological animal. Neurological potential?the ability of an organism to acquire lan

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Dramatistic Approach

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    1. Dramatistic Approach Burkean Criticism or Pentadic Criticism

    2. FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS Assumptions about human beings Biological potential—as humans have needs for food, shelter, mates, rest, air, water, etc.. Burke uses the term “motion” to describe the human being as a sheerly biological animal. Neurological potential—the ability of an organism to acquire language or a symbol system. The human being’s symbolicity adds the dimension of “action” to his/her other dimension of animality—motion.

    3. Key Terms Burke distinguishes dramatistic from dramatic Dramatic: the symbolizing or imitation of action Dramatistic: the critical analysis of language by the use of terms derived from the contemplation of drama

    4. Key Terms Identification—when we are able to observe different situations and find a common substance or essence, or basis for abstraction by which differing situations could be placed into the same group or class, identification occurs. Consubstantial—the process by which two people are said to share the same substance. Related to identification.

    5. Sources of Identification 3 basic sources for identification 1. Material identification. Through property or other things capable of being touched. 2. Idealistic identification. Through ideas, attitudes, feelings, values, etc. 3. Formal identification. Based on the identification that arises from the form or arrangement.

    6. Pentad: the philosophy The discovery of motivation is crucial to Burke’s method of analysis. The pentad provides the critic with a method for getting at motive. Burke believed that motivations derive from form. So, the discovery of the form’s function is equal to the discovery of the form’s motivations, its “why?” Every individual’s motivation is unique because her/his/their situation is unique .

    7. Pentad: the elements The pentad reflects a focus on “act.” From this focus, Burke spins off the four essential elements : A. Each act requires a SCENE in which the act is done. B. Each act requires a PURPOSE for the act. Purpose is not the same a motive. C. Each act requires an AGENT that does the act.

    8. Pentad: the elements D. Each act requires some means or AGENCY by which the act was accomplished. Agency refers to the means or instruments used to complete the act. E. The ACT refers to what is done.

    9. The pentad: the ratios . Burke calls the relationship between terms “ratios.” A ratio is a formula indicating a transition from one term to another. There are twenty ratios possible in the pentad: scene-act, scene-agent, scene-purpose, act-purpose, act-agent, act-agency, agent-purpose, agent-agency, agency-purpose, scene-agency and then the ten in which the terms are reversed.

    10. The pentad: relationship to philosophical systems If the ACT is featured, the philosophy that dominates is REALISM, the philosophical belief that things exist without any abstraction or idealism required.

    11. The pentad: relationship to philosophical systems SCENE? MATERIALISM, the philosophical system that regards all facts explainable through physical laws AGENT ?IDEALISM, the philosophical system that holds what is real is what is in the mind or spirit of each person

    12. The pentad: relationship to philosophical systems AGENCY?PRAGMATISM, which means the necessary attainment of a goal. Knowing what something is “good for.” Instrumentalism. PURPOSE?MYSTICISM, An element of unity exists so that individualism disappears.

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