{"product_id":"unending-conversations-greig-e-henderson-9780809323531","title":"Unending Conversations: New Writings by and about Kenneth Burke","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreviously unpublished writings by and about Kenneth Burke plus essays by such Burkean luminaries as Wayne C. Booth, William H. Rueckert, Robert Wess, Thomas Carmichael, and Michael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 \u003ci\u003eUnending Conversations \u003c\/i\u003ea significant event in the field of Burke studies and in the wider field of literary criticism and theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditors 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first part, Williams's textual introduction and Rueckert's essay analyze the genesis and composition of Burke's \u003ci\u003eA Symbolic of Motives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoetics, Dramatistically Considered\u003c\/i\u003e. Henderson opens part two by showing how these two essays' concerns with literary form hearken back to Burke's first book of criticism, \u003ci\u003eCounter-Statement. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Carmichael discusses Burke's relationship to thinkers such as Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Jean-François 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synecdoche, and irony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the third part, Booth mines his unpublished correspondence with Burke to demonstrate that Burke is a coy theologian.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 \u003ci\u003ePermanence and Change\u003c\/i\u003e, he was rebounding from what he had \"learned as a Christian Scientist.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greig E. Henderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809323532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809323531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.03w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2001 pg. 208","brand":"Greig E. Henderson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448973897983,"sku":"9780809323531","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_90debf06-a467-4760-8519-1eeaa70efef8.jpg?v=1777261404","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unending-conversations-greig-e-henderson-9780809323531","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}