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Kenneth Burke and His Circles consists of original papers focusing on the intellectual circles in which Burke participated during his long career. Instead of concentrating on Burke himself, as most recent scholarship has done, this book considers Burke as one participant in a host of important overlapping intellectual movements that took place over the course of the twentieth century.

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Publié par	Parlor Press, LLC
Date de parution	24 juillet 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781602356016
Langue	English
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Kenneth Burke and His Circles
Edited by
Jack Selzer and Robert Wess
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Kenneth Burke and his circles / edited by Jack Selzer and Robert Wess.
p. cm.
Based on papers presented at a conference held at University Park, Pa. from July 10-12, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 978-1-60235-067-0 (acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-066-3 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-068-7 (adobe ebook)
1. Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993--Criticism and interpretation. I. Selzer, Jack. II. Wess, Robert.
PS3503.U6134Z69 2008
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Cover Image: “Retro Scroll” © 2007 by Aleksandar Velasevic. Used by permission.
Cover design by David Blakesley.
Printed on acid-free paper.
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Contents
Abbreviations of Works by Kenneth Burke
Introduction
1 From Acceptance to Rejection: Kenneth Burke, Ralph Ellison, and Invisible Man
2 An Interview with Ben Belitt: On Kenneth Burke’s Bennington Years
3 Denis Donoghue’s Kenneth Burke
4 Burke’s McKeon Side: Burke’s Pentad and McKeon’s Quartet
5 Essentializing Temporality, Temporizing Essence: The Narrative Theory and Interpretive Practice of Kenneth Burke and Wayne Booth
6 Style and the Defense of Rhetoric: Burke’s and Aristotle’s Competing Models of Mind
7 Aesthetic Power and Rhetorical Experience
8 The Romantic in the Attic: William Blake’s Place in Kenneth Burke’s Intellectual Circle
9 Leveraging a Career with Kenneth Burke: The Politics of Theory in Literary Studies
10 Kenneth Burke and the Claims of a Rhetorical Poetry
11 The “Logological Organizing” of Corporate Discourse: A Burkean Case-Study Analysis
12 Still the King of Queens? Kenneth Burke, The Rhetoric of Religion, and the Theorizing of Rhetoric and Religion Now
13 The Revelations of “Logology”: Secular and Religious Tensions in Burke’s Views on Language, Literature, and Hermeneutics
14 Burkean Perspectives on Prayer: Charting a Key Term through Burke’s Corpus
Works Cited
Contributors
Index of Names and Titles for Print Edition

Abbreviations of Works by Kenneth Burke
ACR : Auscultation, Creation, Revision
ATH : Attitudes Toward History
CP : Collected Poems
CS : Counter-Statement
GM : A Grammar of Motives
LSA : Language as Symbolic Action
PC : Permanence and Change
PLF : The Philosophy of Literary Form
RM : A Rhetoric of Motives
TBL: Towards a Better Life

Introduction
Jack Selzer and Robert Wess
The Special Collections Library at Penn State in many respects operated as the innermost circle for the conference on Kenneth Burke and His Circles, which was held at University Park, Pennsylvania from July 10 through July 12, 2005. It was simultaneously the Nineteenth Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, and the Sixth Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society.
A dozen exhibit cases in an anteroom adjacent to the Special Collections Library (and watched over by a bust of Kenneth Burke created by Virginia Burks) supplied “representative anecdotes” for the entire conference. In one case Marika Seigel displayed material artifacts related to her study of how Burke’s famous comment about “a little fellow named Ecology” developed not only out of Burke’s fertile brain but also out of Burke’s engagement with the field of ecology that was nascent in 1937, when his comment appeared in his Attitudes Toward History (150). Seigel showed articles from the 1935 Newsweek issue that meditated on the Dust Bowl and on the environmentally unfriendly farming practices that were then associated with the agricultural crisis. She directed conferees to Paul Sears’s 1935 book Deserts on the March, one of the most important early books in the field of ecology—and a book that was reviewed prominently in The New Republic, a periodical that Kenneth Burke consumed avidly each week. Drawing on those materials, Seigel’s exhibit demonstrated that key concepts in Attitudes Toward History, among them “the comic corrective” and “efficiency,” developed out of Burke’s close interest in those texts and events and people.
In another exhibit case, Jordynn Jack offered an array of artifacts associated with Burke’s service in the late 1920s to the Bureau of Social Hygiene in New York. Supported by John D. Rockefeller and supervised by the legendary Colonel Arthur Woods, the Bureau was created to reduce social vice, and Woods employed Burke as a researcher and ghostwriter for his 1931 Yale University Press book Dangerous Drugs. Having noted references to the Bureau in Burke’s personal correspondence, having documented the particulars of Burke’s work there, and having researched the Bureau carefully through a study of primary manuscripts, newspapers, and contemporary periodicals, Jack showed conferees salient passages in Dangerous Drugs, made telling connections between the Bureau and Burke’s work more generally, and demonstrated intertextual connections between Burke’s experiences at the Bureau and segments of his 1935 book Permanence and Change —notably those related to the important concept of “piety.”
In a third exhibit case, organized by Jay Jordan, work by and about Dell Hymes was available for inspection. Hymes—one of the creators of the field of sociolinguistics during the 1960s and 1970s—pursued his studies as he did in part because of his personal experiences with Burke and Burke’s writings, beginning when Hymes took a graduate course from Burke at Indiana University late in the 1950s. The case drew attention to key passages in Burke’s Language as Symbolic Action that were especially vital to Hymes, presented correspondence between Hymes and Burke, and even drew the living and breathing Dell Hymes himself to comment on the connections between his work and Burke’s—for Hymes was attending the conference as a keynote speaker.
In other cases were displayed evidence of Burke’s engagements with various other intellectuals and intellectual circles: with R. P. Blackmur (by Rosalyn Eves), with Bennington College (Scott Wible), with educational theorists (Jess Enoch), with John Crowe Ransom (David Tell), with Marxism (Ned O’Gorman), and with Allen Tate (Ann George). Two cases offered evidence of Burke’s connections with poets and poetry, and with music: the first contextualized Julie Whitaker and David Blakesley’s then-forthcoming edition of Burke’s Late Poems, 1968–1993, and the other, prepared by library staff member Jeannette Sabre, showed how Burke’s music and music criticism emerged both from his critical writings and from his family relationships. And a final case exhibited sculpture by Burke’s son Michael, in the form of a metallic “book” with pages inflected by some concepts of his father’s and by Michael’s own unique vision, materials, and technique.
After conferees explored the exhibits, they went next door to hear a presentation about the Kenneth Burke Papers housed at Penn State—the basis for most of the exhibits. Sandra Stelts, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts and long-time custodian of the Burke collection, offered background on the Papers—their acquisition over the years beginning with the visionary leadership of Charles Mann, their history and reach, and their current arrangement. Just as important to the participants, she explained how those papers had supported the research projects captured in the exhibits (including the published articles by Seigel, Jack, Jordan, George, Tell, and many others). And she invited participants to explore the archives themselves. Several took her up on the offer: the Reading Room was crowded in the days following the conference.
The Papers, amazing in their comprehensiveness and sheer volume, are the most significant repository of materials related to Burke’s career in existence. As the library description indicates,
The Kenneth Burke Papers contain the personal and professional papers of the philosopher of language Kenneth Duva Burke. Spanning over eight decades, from 1906 to 1993, the multifaceted papers illuminate not only the personal and intellectual life of Burke, but also the lives of his correspondents, many of them major twentieth-century figures. [. . .] The Kenneth Burke Papers consist of two collections. The first Burke collection, Burke-1, dating from 1906 to 1961, was purchased by The Pennsylvania State University Libraries from Kenneth Burke in 1974. Although it includes a few manuscripts, it is primarily a correspondence file of letters written to Burke. It meas