KENNETH BURKE AND HIS CIRCLES consists of original papers focusing
on the intellectual circles in which Burke participated during his
long career. Instead of concentrating on Burke himself, as most
recent scholarship has done, this book considers Burke as one
participant in a host of important overlapping intellectual
movements that took place over the course of the twentieth century.
Burke is considered as "in conversation" with a host of important
principals who influenced Burke and were in turn influenced by him.
The essays were selected from among ones first presented at a 2005
conference at Penn State University, the principal repository of
Burke archives, and thus the ideal site for this conference's
exploration of the circles Burke participated in. Collectively, the
papers presented at the conference conceive circles broadly to
encompass Burke's relationships to personal friends (e.g., Ralph
Ellison), to major intellectual figures (e.g., Richard McKeon,
Wayne Booth, Denis Donoghue), to academic fields of study (e.g.,
neo-Aristotelianism, corporate communication, Continental
philosophy), and to cultural and artistic movements (such as jazz
and contemporary poetry). Together, the essays offer new and
illuminating perspectives on the complexity and diversity of the
circles in which Burke worked to produce one of the important and
enduring bodies of work in American intellectual life in the
twentieth century. JACK SELZER is Professor of English and
Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in the
College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. President of the
Rhetoric Society of America from 2008 to 2009, he is the author,
coauthor, editor, or coeditor of Kenneth Burke in Greenwich
Village, Kenneth Burke in the 1930s, Rhetorical Bodies,
Understanding Scientific Prose, and Good Reasons. In 2005, he
received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kenneth Burke
Society. ROBERT WESS is a member of the Emeritus Faculty at Oregon
State University and the author of Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric,
Subjectivity, Postmodernism, as well as numerous articles on Burke
and other theorists and literary works. He was also the editor of
KB Journal's special issue on Ecocriticism (Spring, 2006). In 1999,
he received the Distinguished Service Award (1999) from the Kenneth
Burke Society and served as its President from 2005 to 2008.
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