Extensions of the Burkeian system /

Focuses criticism upon the writings of Kenneth Burke. "This is a powerful book. . . . We owe a debt of gratitude to James Chesebro. He and a few others have seen to it that Kenneth Burke's unique thought got a full and fair hearing from a new generation of scholars. This is because Chesebr...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chesebro, James W
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1993
Tuscaloosa ; London : [1993]
Series:Studies in rhetoric and communication
Studies in rhetoric and communication
Studies in rhetoric and communication
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / James W. Chesebro
  • Pt. I Historical Extensions. 1. A Field Guide to Kenneth Burke - 1990 / William H. Rueckert. 2. Auscultation, Creation, and Revision / Kenneth Burke. 3. Aesthetic and Practical Frames of Reference: Burke, Marx, and the Rhetoric of Social Change / Greig E. Henderson
  • Pt. II. Methodological Extensions. 4. Kenneth Burke's Concept of Rhetorical Negativity / Richard B. Gregg. 5. Burke's Representative Anecdote as a Critical Method / Arnie Madsen. 6. Kenneth Burke's Conception of Reality: The Process of Transformation and Its Implications for Rhetorical Criticism / Dale A. Bertelsen
  • Pt. III. Applied and Societal Extensions. 7. Kenneth Burke on Ecology: A Synthesis / Jane Blankenship. 8. Attitudes toward Counternature (with Notes on Nurturing a Poetic Psychosis) / Timothy N. Thompson and Anthony J. Palmeri
  • Pt. IV. Philosophical Extensions. 9. Instruments of His Own Making: Burke and Media / Robert S. Cathcart. 10. The Evolution of Kenneth Burke's Philosophy of Rhetoric: Dialectic between Epistemology and Ontology / Bernard L. Brock.