Kenneth Burke has been widely praised as one of the sharpest
readers of Shakespeare, Freud, and Marx, among others. He was also
well known for turning his many book reviews into essays and
excursions of his own, in the interest of tracking down the
implications of terminologies and concepts, all the while grappling
with some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. EQUIPMENT
FOR LIVING: THE LITERARY REVIEWS OF KENNETH BURKE collects the bulk
of his literary reviews, many of them reprinted here for the first
time and positioning them as scholarship in their own right. In
over 150 reviews, Burke explores poetic, fictional, and critical
works to discern the nature of aesthetics, rhetoric, communication,
literary theory, sociology, and literature as equipment for living.
Along the way, he encounters some of the finest literary and
critical minds of his day, including writers such as William Carlos
Williams, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein,
Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Jackson,
Henry Miller, and Marianne Moore; and critics and philosophers such
as John Dewey, J. L. Austin, Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Wilson, I. A.
Richards, Denis Donoghue, Wayne Booth, Harold Bloom, Van Wyck
Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Alfred North Whitehead. This collection
organizes reviews across the wide range of fields that Burke
engages, including literature, literary criticism, history,
politics, philosophy, sociology, and biography. NATHANIEL A. RIVERS
(PhD, Purdue University) is Assistant Professor of English at
Georgetown University. RYAN P. WEBER, (PhD, Purdue University) is
Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Altoona. Together,
they received the Emergent Scholar Award from the Kenneth Burke
Society in 2005.
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