Kenneth Burke and the 21st Century
Title | Kenneth Burke and the 21st Century PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard L. Brock |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780791440070 |
Kenneth Burke was an influential thinker, literary critic, and rhetorician in the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries. This volume, edited by an influential Burkean scholar, addresses the question: Who was Burke and how can his work be helpful to those who must face new problems and challenges?
Towards a Better Life
Title | Towards a Better Life PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Burke |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780520046382 |
Kenneth Burke
Title | Kenneth Burke PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Bygrave |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2012-09-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134976186 |
Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric and Ideology is a lucid and accessible introduction to a major twentieth-century thinker those ideas have influenced fields as diverse as literary theory, philosophy, linguistics, politics and anthropology. Stephen Bygrave explores the content of Burke's vast output of work, focusing especially on his preoccupation with the relation between language, ideology and action. By considering Burke as a reader and writer of narratives and systems, Bygrave examines the inadequacies of earlier readings of Burke and unfolds his thought within current debates in Anglo-American cultural theory. This is an excellent re-evaluation of Burke's thought and valuble introduction to the impressive range of his ideas.
Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke at the Roots of the Racial Divide
Title | Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke at the Roots of the Racial Divide PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan Crable |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813932157 |
Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke focuses on the little-known but important friendship between two canonical American writers. The story of this fifty-year friendship, however, is more than literary biography; Bryan Crable argues that the Burke-Ellison relationship can be interpreted as a microcosm of the American "racial divide." Through examination of published writings and unpublished correspondence, he reconstructs the dialogue between Burke and Ellison about race that shaped some of their most important works, including Burke's A Rhetoric of Motives and Ellison's Invisible Man. In addition, the book connects this dialogue to changes in American discourse about race. Crable shows that these two men were deeply connected, intellectually and personally, but the social division between white and black Americans produced hesitation, embarrassment, mystery, and estrangement where Ellison and Burke might otherwise have found unity. By using Ellison's nonfiction and Burke's rhetorical theory to articulate a new vocabulary of race, the author concludes not with a simplistic "healing" of the divide but with a challenge to embrace the responsibility inherent to our social order. American Literatures Initiative
The White Oxen
Title | The White Oxen PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Burke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Short stories, American |
ISBN |
Kenneth Burke’s Weed Garden
Title | Kenneth Burke’s Weed Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Kyle Jensen |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2022-06-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0271094273 |
Since its publication in 1950, Kenneth Burke’s A Rhetoric of Motives has been one of the most influential texts of theory and criticism. Critics have discovered in its pages concepts that reveal new dimensions of human motivation. And yet, despite its obvious genius, critics have interpreted A Rhetoric of Motives as a collection of provocations rather than a systematic treatment of rhetoric. In this book, Kyle Jensen argues that the coherence in Burke’s thought has yet to be fully appreciated. Drawing on unpublished drafts and voluminous correspondence, he reconstructs Burke’s drafting and revision process for A Rhetoric of Motives as well as its recently discovered second volume, The War of Words. Jensen’s extensive archival analysis reveals that Burke relied on the concept of myth to draw together the loose ends in his argument. For Burke, all general theories of rhetoric are formed and structured using mythic images and terms. By exploring what Burke added and omitted, and by putting his writing process into the context of daily life after the Second World War—including Burke’s attempts to clear the weeds from his Andover farm—Jensen sheds new light on the key problems that Burke encountered and the methods he used to overcome them. Kenneth Burke’s Weed Garden is essential for those who study Burke and the tradition of modern rhetoric that he helped found.
Counter-Statement
Title | Counter-Statement PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Burke |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1968-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780520001961 |
A valuable feature of the second edition (1953) of Counter-Statement was the Curriculum Criticum in which the author placed the book in terms of his later work. For this new paperback edition, Mr. Burke continues his "curve of development" in an Addendum which surveys the course of his though in subsequent books (up to the publication of his Collected Poems, 1915 - 1967) and work-in-progress.