Kenneth Burke's Permanence and Change: A Critical Companion

296 Pages·2018·15.034 MB·English

by  Ann George

Kenneth Burke’s
Permanence and Change
Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
Thomas W. Benson, Series Editor
Kenneth Burke’s
Permanence and Change
A Critical Companion
Ann George
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The University of South Carolina Press
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ISBN 978-1-61117-931-6 (cloth)
ISBN 978-1-61117-932-3 (ebook)
For David, my truest companion
What Burke offers—and it is the reason why so many of us turn to
him for help—is a methodology, a way of thinking, and of testing our
thinking, about how we act as human beings. We leave Burke’s wonder-
ful books in sadness, but in this sadness is hope. If, in the suffering and
horror of our time, we can develop a method for the analysis of what
symbols do to us in our relations with each other, we may yet learn to
lead a better life. Such is Burke’s message to our time.
Hugh Dalziel Duncan, “Introduction,”
Permanence and Change, 1965
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Series Editor’s Preface xi
Preface xiii
Abbreviations xvi
Introduction A Reshaping of the Terms 1
Part I. Translating Burkean Terms
One. Pieties, Perspectives, and Incongruities 29
Two. Metabiology as Purification of War 54
Three. Enacting the Poetic Orientation 86
Part II. Archival Interventions
Four. Caught in the Act A Writer in the Archives 127
Five. Archival Recalcitrance The Ins and Outs
of Communism 164
Six. Finding the Time for Burke 190
Conclusion A New Rhetoric and Civic
Pedagogy (to Save the World) 206
Appendix A Toward a P&C Chronology 225
Appendix B Works Referenced in P&C 227
Notes 231
Works Cited 249
Index 263

Illustrations
Toward Los Angeles, California. Dorothea Lange. March 1937 5
First edition title page 8
Burke’s Latin and Greek transcriptions of Matthew 16:18 59
“Perspective by Incongruity” notes #6 and #11 140
“Perspective by Incongruity” numbered outline 141
Draft page from “Perspective by Incongruity” 144
Hermes Scroll #7. Hermes Publications, 1953 185
March 1935 New Republic ad for Permanence and Change 196
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