Kenneth Burke

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Works

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1940-03-21

Active to

2010-10-10

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Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and aesthetics. Burke became a highly distinguished writer after getting out of college, and starting off serving as an editor and critic instead, while he developed his relationships with other successful writers. He would later return to the university to lecture and teach. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kenneth+Burke">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 204,591x

2. Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method

   · 2001 · cited 163,250x

3. Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces

   · 1997 · cited 24,733x

4. Analyzing real-time PCR data by the comparative CT method

   · 2008 · cited 23,560x

5. Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype

   · 2001 · cited 20,841x

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Quotes

• “Any performance is discussible either from the standpoint of what it attains or what it misses. Comprehensiveness can be discussed as superficiality, intensiveness as stricture, tolerance as uncertainty—and the poor pedestrian abilities of a fish are clearly explainable in terms of his excellence as a swimmer. A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing—a focus upon object A involves a neglect of object B.”
• “… the pattern of embarrassment behind the contemporary ideal of a language that will best promote good action by entirely eliminating the element of exhortation or command. Insofar as such a project succeeded, its terms would involve a narrowing of circumference to a point where the principle of personal action is eliminated from language, so that an act would follow from it only as a non-sequitur, a kind of humanitarian after-thought.”
• “I felt that the man who strove for dignity, nobility, and honour should have his task made as difficult and as hazardous as possible, and that in particular he should be forgiven no lapses in style.”
• “When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.”
• “As for bravery: dead on the fields are millions who would have feared to wear a hat in inappropriate season, so I judged that brave warriors are dirt cheap as compared with untimid civilians.”
• “In confessing a reprehensible act, I would sometimes add a still more reprehensible interpretation—and whereas I might forget my own judgments upon myself, those in whom I had confided would carefully store them against me.”

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