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The Failure of the Pentad and the Emergence of the Self: Reading Stanton through Burke and Kant

Sat, November 19, 2:00 to 3:15pm, Sheraton, Liberty C

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In this essay I consider the capacities of language to disclose the self. Starting from Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Solitude of Self,” I argue that Stanton successfully discloses the self through a reliance on, and a subsequent violation of, Burke’s dramatistic logic. Drawing on Kant’s notion of the sublime to determine the semiotic limits of Burke’s Pentad, I conclude that the disclosure of the self hinges on the failure of the Pentad.

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