Kenneth Burke and the 21st century / edited by Bernard L. Brock.

Contributor Brock, Bernard L.

Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, c1999.

Descriptionvi, 292 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Papers of the Second Triennial Conference held by the Kenneth Burke Society, May 1993, in Airlie, Va.

Note:PART I. SYMBOLIC ACTION: Nature's physician: the metabiology of Kenneth Burke / Richard H. Thames -- Toward an ecology of language / Star A. Muir -- Kenneth Burke's pragmatism, old and new / David Blakesley -- PART II. BURKE AND FEMINISM: "Being" and the promise of trinity: a feminist addition to Burke's theory of dramatism / Karen A. Foss, Cindy L. White -- "Can this marriage be saved?": reclaiming Burke for feminist scholarship / Phyllis M. Japp -- PART III. POSTMODERNISM AND MULTICULTURALISM: Kenneth Burke's implicit theory of power / George Cheney, Kathy Garvin-Doxas, Kathleen Torrens -- Dramatism and deconstruction: Burke, de Man, and the rhetorical motive / Greig Henderson -- Multiculturalism and the Burkean system: limitations and extensions / James W. Chesebro -- PART IV. THE BURKEAN SYSTEM: Lacan, Burke, and human motive / Dina Stevenson -- Burkean social hierarchy and the ironic investment of Martin Luther King / James F. Klumpp -- "Secular pragmatism": Kenneth Burke and the [re]socialization of literature and theory / Dennis J. Ciesielski.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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