Kenneth Burke in the 1930s (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: October 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781570037009
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; USA; American - General; Rhetoric; Literary; 1897-1993; Burke, Kenneth,; Criticism and interpretation; Nineteen thirties; Political and social views
Description: "George and Selzer offer a comprehensive account of four Burke texts - Auscultation, Creation, and Revision (1932), Permanence and Change (1935), Attitudes toward History (1937), and The Philosophy of Literary Form (1941) - and contend that the work from this decade is at least as compelling as his later; more widely known books. The authors examine extensive and largely unexplored archives of Burke's papers, study the magazines in which Burke's works appeared, and, most important, read him carefully in relation to the ideological conversations of the time. Offering a rich context for understanding Burke's writings from one of his most prolific periods, George and Selzer argue that significant Burkean concepts - such as identification and dramatism - found in later texts ought to be understood as rooted in his 1930s commitments"--Jacket.