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In the inaugural series of "Landmark Essay" books, this is the only volume which focuses on the work of one scholar. Kenneth Burke -- poet, scholar, critic, iconoclast, eccentric, and Yankee crank -- is the major figure in American humanities in the twentieth century. He does not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor is he reducible to any simple set of principles and ideas. Scholars from... Read more
Contents: B. Brummett, Introduction: Landmark Essays on Kenneth Burke (1993). Part One:Overviews and Surveys. M.H. Nichols, Kenneth Burke and the "New Rhetoric" (1952). S.E. Hyman, Kenneth Burke and the Criticism of Symbolic Action (1948). H. Nemerov, Everything, Preferably All At Once (1971). J. Blankenship, E. Murphy, M. Rosenwasser, Pivotal Terms in the Early Works of Kenneth Burke (1974). M. Overington, Kenneth Burke and the Method of Dramatism (1977). Part II:A Focus on Critical and Philosophical Issues. R.B. Gregg, Kenneth Burke's Prolegomena to the Study of the Rhetoric of Form (1978). J.W. Chesebro, Epistemology and Ontology as Dialectical Modes in the Writings of Kenneth Burke. Part III:Politics and Intervention. W.H. Rueckert, Towards a Better Life Through Symbolic Action (1963). H.D. Duncan, "Introduction" to Symbols in Society (1968). L. Griffin, A Dramatistic Theory of the Rhetoric of Movements (1969). F. Lentricchia, Reading History with Kenneth Burke (1982). W.C. Booth, Kenneth Burke's Comedy: The Multiplication of Perspectives (1979). C. Condit, Post-Burke: Transcending the Sub-stance of Dramatism (1992).
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Barry Brummett
