In the inaugural series of "Landmark Essay" books, this is the only
volume which focuses on the work of one scholar. Kenneth Burke --
poet, scholar, critic, iconoclast, eccentric, and Yankee crank --
is the major figure in American humanities in the twentieth
century. He does not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor
is he reducible to any simple set of principles and ideas. Scholars
from many fields -- communication, English, history, sociology, and
more -- have studied Burke's theories and critical methods which
have spawned reams of commentary, extension, debate, and
application. More than a single intellectual worker, he is the ore
for a scholarly industry. This book contains a few outstanding
examples of the products of that industry. Readers will find models
of what it means to be Burkean, to study Burke, and to use Burke in
developing an understanding of the human condition.
The essays in this volume show that one can borrow ideas from
Burke, or one can become wholly immersed inhim. However, his work
cannot be reduced to or equated with any other figure, method, or
school of thought. The reader may find some striking similarities
among the papers in this book. Written by scholars from several
disciplines, they nevertheless address many of the same themes
during the course of their exposition. What is also striking is the
fact that most of the essays enter that Burkean system of themes
from different starting points. Thus, they are models of what Burke
claims for any critical vocabulary -- including his own -- that
they are cycles of terms, any one of which leads into another.
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