{"product_id":"unending-conversations-new-writings-by-and-about-kenneth-burke-paperback-2","title":"Unending Conversations: New Writings by and about Kenneth Burke - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGreig E. Henderson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDavid Cratis Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreviously unpublished writings by and about Kenneth Burke plus essays by such Burkean luminaries as Wayne C. Booth, William H. Rueckert, Robert Wess, Thomas Carmichael, and Michael Feehan make the publication of \u003ci\u003eUnending Conversations \u003c\/i\u003ea significant event in the field of Burke studies and in the wider field of literary criticism and theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditors Greig Henderson and David Cratis Williams have divided their material into three parts: \"Dialectics of Expression, Communication, and Transcendence,\" \"Criticism, Symbolicity, and Tropology,\" and \"Transcendence and the Theological Motive.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first part, Williams's textual introduction and Rueckert's essay analyze the genesis and composition of Burke's \u003ci\u003eA Symbolic of Motives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoetics, Dramatistically Considered\u003c\/i\u003e. Henderson opens part two by showing how these two essays' concerns with literary form hearken back to Burke's first book of criticism, \u003ci\u003eCounter-Statement. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Carmichael discusses Burke's relationship to thinkers such as Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Jean-François Lyotard, and Richard Rorty. Wess analyzes the relation between Burke's dramatistic pentad of act, agent, scene, agency, and purpose and his four master tropes--metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the third part, Booth mines his unpublished correspondence with Burke to demonstrate that Burke is a coy theologian. Michael Feehan discusses Burke's revelation in a 1983 interview that rather than rebounding from a naive kind of Marxism in \u003ci\u003ePermanence and Change\u003c\/i\u003e, he was rebounding from what he had \"learned as a Christian Scientist.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreviously unpublished writings by and about Kenneth Burke plus essays by such Burkean luminaries as Wayne C. Booth, William H. Rueckert, Robert Wess, Thomas Carmichael, and Michael Feehan make the publication of Unending Conversations a significant event in the field of Burke studies and in the wider field of literary criticism and theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditors Greig Henderson and David Cratis Williams have divided their material into three parts: \"Dialectics of Expression, Communication, and Transcendence\", \"Criticism, Symbolicity, and Tropology\", and \"Transcendence and the Theological Motive\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first part, Williams's textual introduction and Rueckert's essay analyze the genesis and composition of Burke's \"A Symbolic of Motives\" and \"Poetics, Dramatistically Considered\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenderson opens part two by showing how in these two essays concerns with literary form hearken back to Burke's first book of criticism, Counter-Statement. Thomas Carmichael discusses Burke's relationship to thinkers such as Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Richard Rorty. Wess analyzes the relation between Burke's dramatistic pentad of act, agent, scene, agency, and purpose and his four master tropes -- metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the third part, Booth mines his unpublished correspondence with Burke to demonstrate that Burke is a coy theologian. Michael Feehan discusses Burke's revelation in a 1983 interview that rather than rebounding from a naive kind of Marxism in Permanence and Change, he was rebounding from what he had \"learned as a Christian Scientist\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreig Henderson\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. President of the Kenneth Burke Society, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eKenneth Burke: Literature and Language as Symbolic Action. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Cratis Williams \u003c\/b\u003eis an assistant professor of speech communication in the Department of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts at the University of Missouri, Rolla. He edited \u003ci\u003eArgumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cratis Williams Chronicles: I Come to Boone\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6.03 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47572639514845,"sku":"9780809323531","price":68.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/dZ9ClqeYLX9780809323531_d7f2050b-8542-4b56-bb9e-17acc1911641.webp?v=1773392549","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/unending-conversations-new-writings-by-and-about-kenneth-burke-paperback-2","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}