• The purpose of this study is to judge whether Kenneth Burke's notions and critical methods are ethnocentrically Western. It employs the Laozi and Zhuangzi texts of Chinese Daoist philosophy to determine whether Burke's view of language and his approaches to criticism admit a non-Western point of view. Ethnocentrism is defined as a limitation in an individual's "way of seeing"--of perceiving, evaluating, and responding to the world--according to enculturation in a specific ingroup. Burke's sphere…Read more