Unending conversations : new writings by and about Kenneth Burke / edited by Greig Henderson and David Cratis Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henderson, Greig E.

Williams, David Cratis, 1955-

Series:

Rhetorical philosophy and theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.

Burke, Kenneth.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

xviii, 233 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1 Dialectics of Expression, Communication, and Transcendence

1. Toward Rounding Out the Motivorum Trilogy: A Textual Introduction / David Cratis Williams 3

2. "Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics": Selections from "Poetics, Dramatistically Considered" / Kenneth Burke 35

3. "Glimpses into a Labyrinth of Interwoven Motives": Selections from "A Symbolic of Motives" / Kenneth Burke 81

4. Kenneth Burke's "Symbolic of Motives" and "Poetics, Dramatistically Considered" / William H. Rueckert 99

Part 2 Criticism, Symbolicity, and Tropology

5. A Rhetoric of Form: The Early Burke and Reader-Response Criticism / Greig Henderson 127

6. Screening Symbolicity: Kenneth Burke and Contemporary Theory / Thomas Carmichael 143

7. Pentadic Terms and Master Tropes: Ontology of the Act and Epistemology of the Trope in A Grammar of Motives / Robert Wess 154

Part 3 Transcendence and the Theological Motive

8. The Many Voices of Kenneth Burke, Theologian and Prophet, as Revealed in His Letters to Me / Wayne C. Booth 179

9. Sensation, Memory, Imitation/and Story / Kenneth Burke 202

10. Kenneth Burke and Mary Baker Eddy / Michael Feehan 206.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0809323524

0809323532

OCLC:

43903573