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KENNETH BURKE (1897 - 1993)

ASSOCIATIONS

• Kenneth Burke Interest Group

• Kenneth Burke Society (old)

CONFERENCES

• Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric and Social Change, Eighth Triennial Conference, Kenneth Burke Society, Clemson University, May 26-29, 2011
• Kenneth Burke: Transcendence by Perspective, Seventh Triennial Conference, Kenneth Burke Society, Villanova University, June 29-July 1, 2008
• Kenneth Burke and his Circles, Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Pennsylvania State University, July 10-12, 2005
• Perspective by Incongruity, Fifth Triennial Conference, Kenneth Burke Society, Tulane Society, May 23-26, 2002
• Engaging Kenneth Burke, Fourth Triennial Conference, Kenneth Burke Society, University of Iowa, May 20-23, 1999
   

COURSES

• Purdue University: Kenneth Burke and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (Blakesley)
• University of Wisconsin, Madison: Rhetorical Theory of Kenneth Burke (Howard)

JOURNALS

• KB Journal

• Kenneth Burke Society Newsletter

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955.  Ed. William H. Rueckert.  West Lafayette, IN: Parlor, 2007.

  • Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare.  Ed. Scott L. Newstok.  West Lafayette, IN: Parlor, 2007.

  • Late Poems, 1968–1993.  Ed. Julie Whitaker and David Blakesley.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2006.

  • Here & Elsewhere: the Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke.  Ed. Denis Donoghue.  Black Sparrow, 2005.

  • On Human Nature: a Gathering while Everything Flows: Essays, 1967-1984.  Ed. William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna.  Berkeley: U of California P, 2003.

  • The Humane Particulars: the Collected Letters of William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Burke.  Ed. James H. East.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2003.

  • Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987.  Ed. William H. Rueckert.  West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2003.

  • Unending Conversations: New Writings by and about Kenneth Burke.  Ed. Greig E. Henderson and David Cratis Williams.  Carbondale: U of Southern Illinois P, 2001.

  • On Symbols and Society.  Ed. Joseph Gusfield.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1989.

  • Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981.  Ed. Paul Jay.  New York: Viking, 1988.

  • Collected Poems, 1915-1967.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1968.

  • The Complete White Oxen: Collected Short Fiction of Kenneth Burke.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1968.

  • Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.

  • Perspectives by Incongruity.  Ed. Stanley Edgar Hyman and Barbara Karmiller.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1964.

  • Terms for Order.  Ed. Stanley Edgar Hyman and Barbara Karmiller.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1964.

  • The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology.  Boston: Beacon, 1961.

  • The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1941.  Rpt. New York: Vintage, 1957.

  • Book of Moments: Poems 1915-1954.  Los Altos, CA: Hermes Publications, 1955.

  • Towards a Better Life, Being a Series of Epistles or Declamations.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932.

  • Counter-Statement.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931. 

  • The White Oxen, and Other Stories.  New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1924.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • "Theology and Logology."  Kenyon Review 1.1 (1979): 151-85.

  • "Rhetoric, Poetics, and Philosophy."  Rhetoric, Philosophy and Literature: an Exploration.  Ed. Don M. Burks.  West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 1978.  15-33.

  • "On Literary Form."  The New Criticism and After.  John Crowe Ransom Memorial Lectures delivered at Kenyon College, April 3-5, 1975.  Ed. Thomas Daniel Young.  Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1976.  80-90.

  • "Words as Deeds."  Centrum 3.2 (1975): 147-168.

  • "The Rhetorical Situation."  Communication: Ethical and Moral Issues.  Ed. Lee Thayer.  New York: Gordon and Breach Science, 1973.  263-75.

  • "Dramatism."  Communication: Concepts and Perspectives.  Ed. Lee Thayer.  Washington, DC: Spartan, 1967.  327-360.  

    • International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.  Vol. 7.  New York: Macmillan and Free Press, 1968.  445-452.

  • "Formalist Criticism: its Principles and Limits."  Texas Quarterly 9 (1966): 242-268. 

    • Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.  480-506.

  • "Terministic Screens."  Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.  Washington, DC: Catholic U of America, 1965.  87-102. 

    • Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.  44-62.

      • The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present.  Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  New York: Bedford, 2000.  1340-1347.

  • "Somnia Ad Urinandum: More Thoughts on Motion and Action."  Limbo 1 (1965): 30-47. 

    • Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.  344-358.

  • "Definition of Man."  Hudson Review 16 (1963-64): 491-514. 

    • Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.  3-24.

  • "What Are the Signs of What?  A Theory of 'Entitlement."'  Anthropological Linguistics 4 (1962): 1-23.  Rpt. 35.1-4 (1993): 476-97.

    • Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.  359-379.

  • "Myth, Poetry and Philosophy."  Journal of American Folklore 73 (1960): 283-306. 

    • Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.  380-409.

  • "The Language of Poetry, 'Dramatistically' Considered."  Chicago Review 8 (1954): 88-102, and 9 (1955): 40-72.

  • "A 'Dramatistic' View of Imitation."  Accent 12 (1952): 229-241.

  • "A Dramatistic View of the Origins of Language."  Quarterly Journal of Speech 38 (1952): 251-264. 

    • Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.  419-479.

  • A Rhetoric of Motives.  New York: Prentice Hall, 1950.

    • The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present.  Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  New York: Bedford, 2000.  1324-1340.

  • "Ideology and Myth."  Accent 7 (1947): 195-205.

  • "Kinds of Criticism."  Poetry 68 (1946): 272-282.

    • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch, et al.  New York: Norton, 2001.  1272-1278.

  • A Grammar of Motives.  New York: Prentice Hall, 1945.

    • The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present.  Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  New York: Bedford, 2000.  1298-1324.

  • "Container and Thing Contained."  Sewanee Review 53 (1945): 56-78. 

    • A Grammar of Motives.  New York: Prentice Hall, 1945.  3-20.

  • "The Five Master Terms, their Place in a 'Dramatistic' Grammar of Motives."  View 3.2 (1943): 50-52. 

    • A Grammar of Motives.  New York: Prentice Hall, 1945.  xv-xxiii.

  • "Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats."  Accent 4 (1943): 30-42.

    • The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Ed. David H. Richter.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.  584-592.

    • A Grammar of Motives.  New York: Prentice Hall, 1945.  447-463.

  • "The Temporizing of Essence." Kenyon Review 7 (1945): 616-627. 

    • A Grammar of Motives.  New York: Prentice Hall, 1945.  430-440.

  • "The Philosophy of Literary Form."  The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1941.  1-137.  Rpt. New York: Vintage, 1957.  3-117. 

    • pp. 1-25 rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Theory: an Introductory Anthology.  Ed. Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1986.  85-100.

  • "Four Master Tropes."  The Kenyon Review 3 (1941): 421-438. 

    • A Grammar of Motives.  New York: Prentice Hall, 1945.  503-517.

  • "Freud and the Analysis of Poetry."  American Journal of Sociology 45 (1939): 391-417. 

    • The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1941.  Rpt. New York: Vintage, 1957.  221-250.

  • "The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle."  Southern Review 5 (1939): 1-21. 

    • The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1941.  Rpt. New York: Vintage, 1957.  164-189.

  • "Literature as Equipment for Living."  Direction 1 (1938): 10-13. 

    • The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Ed. David H. Richter.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.  593-598.

    • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  920-924.

    • The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1941.  Rpt. New York: Vintage, 1957.  253-262.

  • "Semantic and Poetic Meaning."  Southern Review 4 (1938): 501-523.

    • The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1941.  Rpt. New York: Vintage, 1957.  121-144.

  • "Twelve Propositions by Kenneth Burke on the Relation between Economy and Psychology."  Science & Society 2 (1938): 242-249.

    • The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1941.  Rpt. New York: Vintage, 1957.  263-270.

  • "The Virtues and Limitations of Debunking."  Southern Review 3 (1938): 640-656. 

    • The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1941.  Rpt. New York: Vintage, 1957.  145-163.

  • Attitudes Towards History.  2 Vols.  New York: New Republic, 1937.

  • Permanence and Change: an Anatomy of Purpose.  New York: New Republic, 1935.

  • "Revolutionary Symbolism in America."  American Writers' Congress.  Ed. Henry Hart.  New York: International Publishers, 1935.

  • "The Nature of Art under Capitalism."  The Nation 137 (December 1933): 675-677. 

    • The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1941.  Rpt. New York: Vintage, 1957.  271-278.

  • "Lexicon Rhetoricae."  Counter-Statement.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931.  123-183.

    • Critiques and Essays in Criticism, 1920-1948.  Ed. Robert Wooster Stallman.  New York: Ronald Press, 1949.  235-249.

  • "Psychology and Form."  The Dial 79 (1925): 34-46. 

    • Criticism: the Major Statements.  New York: St. Martin's, 1980.

     3rd Ed. edited by Charles Kaplan and William Anderson, 1991.  456-467.

    • Critiques and Essays in Criticism, 1920-1948.  Ed. Robert Wooster Stallman.  New York: Ronald Press, 1949.  224-233.

    • Counter-Statement.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931.  29-44.

  • "The Poetic Process."  The Guardian 2 (1925): 281-294. 

    • Counter-Statement.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931.  45-62.

On-Line:

• Archives:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Philosophy of Literary Form (1941):

    • Unending Conversation Metaphor [brief excerpt]

  • Literature as Equipment for Living (1938)

  • Psychology and Form (1925)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Brock, Bernard L., ed.  Kenneth Burke and the Twenty-first Century.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.

  • Brock, Bernard L., ed.  Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1995.

  • Brummett, Barry, ed.  Landmark Essays on Kenneth Burke.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993.

  • Chesebro, James W., ed.  Extensions of the Burkean System.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1993.

  • Henderson, Greig E., and David Cratis Williams, eds.  Unending Conversations: New Writings by and about Kenneth Burke.  Carbondale: U of Southern Illinois P, 2001.

  • Simons, Herbert W., and Trevor Melia, eds.  The Legacy of Kenneth Burke.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1989.

  • White, Hayden, and Margaret Brose, eds.  Representing Kenneth Burke.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Abbott, Don.  "Marxist Influences on the Rhetorical Theory of Kenneth Burke."  Philosophy and Rhetoric 7 (1974): 217-233.

  • Biesecker, Barbara A.  Addressing Postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric and a Theory of Social Change.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1997.

  • Blakesley, David.  The Elements of Dramatism.  London: Longman, 2001.

  • Booth, Wayne.  "Kenneth Burke's Comedy: the Multiplication of Perspectives."  Critical Understanding: the Powers and Limits of Pluralism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1979.  99-127.

  • Booth, Wayne.  "Kenneth Burke's Way of Knowing."  Critical Inquiry 1.1 (1974): 1-22.

  • Brown, M. E.  Kenneth Burke.  1969.

  • Bygrave, Stephen.  Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric and Ideology.  London: Routledge, 1993.

  • Carter, C. Allen.  Kenneth Burke and the Scapegoat Process.  Tulsa: U of Oklahoma P, 1996.

  • Chesebro, James W.  Extensions of the Burkean System.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1993.

  • Crable, Bryan.  "Burke's Perspective on Perspectives: Grounding Dramatism in the Representative Anecdote."  Quarterly Journal of Speech 86 (2000): 318-33.

  • Crowell, Laura.  "Three Sheers for Kenneth Burke."  Quarterly Journal of Speech 63 (1997): 152-67.

  • Crusius, Timothy W.  Kenneth Burke and the Conversation after Philosophy. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1999

  • Duffey, Bernard I.  "Reality as Language: Kenneth Burke's Theory of Poetry."  Western Review 12 (1948).

  • Fisher, Walter, and Wayne Brockriede.  "Kenneth Burke's Realism."  Central States Speech Journal 35 (1984): 35-42.

  • Frank, Armin Paul.  Kenneth Burke.  New York; Twayne, 1969.

  • Harland, Richard.  "Kenneth Burke."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  184-187.
  • Hassett, Michael.  "Sophisticated Burke: Kenneth Burke as a Neosophistic Rhetorician."  Rhetoric Review 13.2 (1995): 371-390.

  • Heath, Robert L.  Realism and Relativism: a Perspective on Kenneth Burke.  Mercer UP, 1986.

  • Henderson, Greig E.  Kenneth Burke: Literature and Language as Symbolic Action.  1988.

  • Hyman, Stanley Edgar.  "Kenneth Burke and the Criticism of Symbolic Action."  The Armed Vision: a Study in the Methods of Modern Literary Criticism.  1948.

  • Jameson, Frederic.  "The Symbolic Inference: or, Kenneth Burke and Ideological Analysis."  Critical Inquiry 4.3 (1978): 507-523. 

    • Situations of Theory.  Vol. 1 of The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986.  2 Vols.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.  137-153. 

  • Jay, Paul.  "Kenneth Burke."  American Critics, 1920-1955.  Vol. 63.  Dictionary of Literary Biography.  1988.

  • Jay, Paul.  "Kenneth Burke and the Motives of Rhetoric."  American Literary History 1 (1989).

  • King, Andrew.  "Burkean Theory Reborn: How Burkean Studies Assimilated its Postmodern Critics."  Rhetoric Review 20 (2001): 32-37.

  • Lindsay, Stan A.  Implicit Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke's Extension of Aristotle's Concept of Entelechy.  Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1998.

  • Murray, Jeffrey W.  Kenneth Burke: a Dialogue of Motives.  Lanham MD: UP of America, 2002.

  • Nichols, Marie Hochmuth.  "Kenneth Burke and the 'New Rhetoric.'"  Quarterly Journal of Speech 38 (1952): 133-144.

  • Overington, Michael A.  "Kenneth Burke and the Method of Dramatism."  Theory and Society 4 (1977): .

  • Overington, Michael A.  "Kenneth Burke as Social Theorist."  Sociological Inquiry 47.2 (1977): 133-41.

  • Rueckert, William H.  Encounters With Kenneth Burke.  Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1994.

  • Rueckert, William H.  Critical Responses to Kenneth Burke, 1924-1966.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1969.

  • Rueckert, William H.  Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1963.

  • Rueckert, William H.  The Rhetoric of Rebirth: a Study of the Literary Theory and Critical Practice of Kenneth Burke.  1957.

  • Selzer, Jack.  Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village: Conversing With the Moderns, 1915-1931.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1997.

  • Southwell, Samuel B.  Kenneth Burke and Martin Heidegger: With a Note Against Deconstruction.  Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1987.

  • Weiser, M. Elizabeth.  Burke, War, Words: Rhetoricizing Dramatism.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2008.
  • Wellek, René.  "Kenneth Burke and Literary Criticism."  Sewanee Review 79 (1971): 171-188.

  • Wess, Robert.  Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1996.

  • Wolin, Ross.  The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burke.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2001.

On-Line:

• Blakesley, David: Burke Bibliographies (KB Journal)

• Crusius, Timothy W.:

  • The Question of Burke's Identity -- and Permanence and Change

  • The Question of Kenneth Burke's Ethics KB Journal 3.1 (2006)

• Hanson, Jim: Sociality in the Rhetorics of Burke and Perelman

• Hildebrand, David L.: Was Kenneth Burke a Pragmatist? 

• Klumpp, James: Kenneth Burke and the Symbolic Motivation Move

• Lamoureux, Ed: Introduction to Kenneth Burke

• McLemee, Scott: A Puzzling Figure in Literary Criticism is Suddenly Central Chronicle of Higher Education April 20, 2001

• Quigley, Brooke L.: Identification as a Key Term in Burke's Rhetorical Theory

• Radney, J. Randolph: Some Contributions of Kenneth Burke's A Grammar of Motives to the Humanities

• Simmons, Michael: Kenneth Burke: Symbolic Action

• Simons, Herbert W.: The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke

• Tell, David: Burke's Encounter with Ransom: Rhetoric and Epistemology in Four Master Tropes Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2004)

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Kenneth Burke:

  • Dramatistic Pentad

• Zulick, Margaret: Kenneth Burke Roadmap

WWW GATEWAYS

• Blakesley, David: Virtual Burkeian Parlor
• Comas, James: Resources for the Study of K. Burke
• KB Mailing List
• Schiappa, Edward: Resources on Kenneth Burke

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