Previously unpublished writings by and about Kenneth Burke plus
essays by such Burkean luminaries as Wayne C. Booth, William H.
Rueckert, Robert Wess, Thomas Carmichael, and Michael Feehan make
the publication of Unending Conversations a significant event in
the field of Burke studies and in the wider field of literary
criticism and theory.
Editors Greig Henderson and David Cratis Williams have divided
their material into three parts: "Dialectics of Expression,
Communication, and Transcendence", "Criticism, Symbolicity, and
Tropology", and "Transcendence and the Theological Motive".
In the first part, Williams's textual introduction and
Rueckert's essay analyze the genesis and composition of Burke's "A
Symbolic of Motives" and "Poetics, Dramatistically Considered".
Henderson opens part two by showing how in these two essays
concerns with literary form hearken back to Burke's first book of
criticism, Counter-Statement. Thomas Carmichael discusses Burke's
relationship to thinkers such as Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida,
Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Richard
Rorty. Wess analyzes the relation between Burke's dramatistic
pentad of act, agent, scene, agency, and purpose and his four
master tropes -- metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
In the third part, Booth mines his unpublished correspondence
with Burke to demonstrate that Burke is a coy theologian. Michael
Feehan discusses Burke's revelation in a 1983 interview that rather
than rebounding from a naive kind of Marxism in Permanence and
Change, he was rebounding from what he had "learned as a Christian
Scientist".
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