“The” Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley
Title | “The” Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Burke |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1990 |
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The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981
Title | The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981 PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Burke |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 468 |
Release | 1990-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780520068995 |
This portrays an extraordinary literary friendship, unique in American letters for its longevity, and it chronicles the lives and events that helped shape modern literature and criticism.
The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burke
Title | The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burke PDF eBook |
Author | Ross Wolin |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781570034046 |
Blending the genres of biography, intellectual history, and rhetorical theory, this study presents an analysis of Burke's (1897-1993) early essays and his eight theoretical works, placing them in the context of their social and political history. Wolin (humanities and rhetoric, Boston University) casts each work as a re-articulation and extension of the ideas imbedded in Burke's previous efforts. The tactics of conflict, cooperation, and motivation are emphasized. c. Book News Inc.
Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric
Title | Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric PDF eBook |
Author | Sonja K. Foss |
Publisher | Waveland Press |
Total Pages | 405 |
Release | 2014-04-04 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1478622156 |
The anniversary edition marks thirty years of offering an indispensable review and analysis of thinkers who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary rhetorical theory: I. A. Richards, Ernesto Grassi, Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, Stephen Toulmin, Richard Weaver, Kenneth Burke, Jürgen Habermas, bell hooks, Jean Baudrillard, and Michel Foucault. The brief biographical sketches locate the theorists in time and place, showing how life experiences influenced perspectives on rhetorical thought. The concise explanations of complex concepts are clear, engaging, insightful, and highly accessible, serving as an excellent primer for reading the major works of these scholars. The critical commentary is carefully chosen to highlight implications and to place the theories within a broader rhetorical context. Each chapter ends with a complete bibliography of works by the theorists.
Burke in the Archives
Title | Burke in the Archives PDF eBook |
Author | Dana Anderson |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 409 |
Release | 2013-06-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 161117239X |
Burke in the Archives brings together thirteen original essays by leading and emerging Kenneth Burke scholars to explore provocatively the twenty-first-century usefulness of a figure widely regarded as the twentieth century's most influential rhetorician. Edited by Dana Anderson and Jessica Enoch, the volume breaks new ground as it complicates, extends, and ultimately transforms how the field of rhetorical studies understands Burke, calling much-needed attention to the roles that archival materials can and do play in this process. Although other scholars have indeed looked to Burke's archives to advance their work, no individual essays, books, or collections purposefully reflect on the archive's role in transforming rhetorical scholars' understandings of Burke. By drawing on an impressively varied range of archival materials—including unpublished letters, newly recovered reviews, notes on articles, drafts of essays, and even comments on student papers from Burke's years of teaching—the essays in this volume mount distinct, powerful arguments about how archival materials have the potential to reshape and invigorate rhetorical scholarship. Including contributors such as Jack Selzer, Debra Hawhee, and Ann George, this collection pursues Burke behind the arguments of his major works to the divergent preoccupations, habits of mind, breakthroughs, and breakdowns of his insight. Through the archival arguments and analyses that unify its essays, Burke in the Archives showcases how historiographic and methodological work can propel Burke scholarship in new directions.
The Long Voyage
Title | The Long Voyage PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Cowley |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 555 |
Release | 2014-01-06 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0674728246 |
Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the “lost generation,” and elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989) was an eloquent witness to much of twentieth-century American literary and political life. These letters, the vast majority previously unpublished, provide an indelible self-portrait of Cowley and his time, and make possible a full appreciation of his long and varied career. Perhaps no other writer aided the careers of so many poets and novelists. Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Kerouac, Tillie Olsen, and John Cheever are among the many authors Cowley knew and whose work he supported. A poet himself, Cowley enjoyed the company of writers and knew how to encourage, entertain, and when necessary scold them. At the center of his epistolary life were his friendships with Kenneth Burke, Allen Tate, Conrad Aiken, and Edmund Wilson. By turns serious and thoughtful, humorous and gossipy, Cowley’s letters to these and other correspondents display his keen literary judgment and ability to navigate the world of publishing. The letters also illuminate Cowley’s reluctance to speak out against Stalin and the Moscow Trials when he was on staff at The New Republic—and the consequences of his agonized evasions. His radical past would continue to haunt him into the Cold War era, as he became caught up in the notorious “Lowell Affair” and was summoned to testify in the Alger Hiss trials. Hans Bak supplies helpful notes and a preface that assesses Cowley’s career, and Robert Cowley contributes a moving foreword about his father.
Wrestling with the Left
Title | Wrestling with the Left PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Foley |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 463 |
Release | 2010-12-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0822348292 |
An in-depth analysis of the composition of Invisible Man and Ralph Ellisons move away from the radical left during his writing of the novel between 1945 and 1952.