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Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987

Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987( )
Author: Burke, Kenneth
Editor: Rueckert, William H.
Transcribed by: Rueckert, Barbara L.
Foreword by: Bonadonna, Angelo
ISBN:978-0-9724772-2-2
Publication Date:Oct 2002
Publisher:Parlor Press
Book Format:Ebook
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List Price:USD $8.40USD $12.00
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These letters show the development of BurkeÆs thought in the last thirty or so years of his life, when he remained remarkably productive not only as a correspondent but as a critic and traveling scholar. Rueckert became for Burke both student and ôco-conspirator,ö with Burke himself playing the roles of teacher, mentor, father, and peer. While Burke corresponded for many years with Malcolm Cowley, William Carlos Williams, Hugh Duncan, and others, with Rueckert, we see him writing to...
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Author Biography
Burke, Kenneth (Author)
Born in Pittsburgh, Burke was educated at Ohio State and Columbia universities. During his early career, he became involved with a number of little magazines, including Broom and Secession. He also wrote for The Dial and The Nation as a music critic. His greatest fame, however, has been as a literary critic.

Omnivorously eclectic, Burke has found in the analysis of human symbolic activities a key to the largest cultural issues. For Burke, literature is the most prominent and sophisticated form of "symbolic action," one that provides "equipment for living" by allowing us to try out hypothetical strategies for dealing with the endless variety of human situations and experiences. Human society demands some principle of order, but the language and reason that create order can fall into rigid abstractions that can be destructive and violently imposed. Literature shows us an image of sacrifice, forgiveness, and flexibility that plays an important role in keeping society functioning flexibly.

Burke's writing is extensive, complex and wide ranging, but also unique and uniquely important among current critical approaches.

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