Product Description: Riders of the Storm is a novel that delves into the dark side of violent crime A crime goes wrong. A burglary backfires. Catburglars Mickey Tanner and Finbar O'Toole flee - pursued by the force of the law and a gang of villians. They rough it out on Hampstead Heath and have a shoot out in Waterlow Park that spills over into Highgate Cemetery...read more

Product Description: In August, 1959, an anxious William Rueckert wrote Kenneth Burke to ask, "When on earth is that perpetually 'forthcoming' A Symbolic of Motives forthcoming? Will it be soon enough so that I can wait for it before I complete my book [Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations]? If the Symbolic is not forthcoming soon, would it be too much trouble for you to send me a list of exactly what will be included in the book, and some idea of the structure of the book?" Burke replied, "Holla! If you're uncomfortable, think how uncomfortable I am...read more

Product Description: Kenneth Burke continued to write poetry after the 1968 publication of his Collected Poems, but until now the poetry from the last quarter century of his life has remained largely unpublished, hiding in the mass of papers at his farmhouse in Andover, New Jersey...read more

The stories of Kenneth Burke (1897 1993) were unlike any other fiction of the 1920s. Not for him the stripped-down language of Hemingway or the topical satire of Fitzgerald; instead he constructed rhetorically gorgeous essay-stories that anticipated (by 40 years) the narrative techniques of Calvino, Gass, and Nicholson Baker. Here & Elsewhere gathers, for the first time, all of Burke's fiction: 23 short stories and Towards a Better Life (1932), which Denis Donoghue calls "one of my favorite novels, full of sentences so luminous that I could be easily persuaded that style is everything."

Product Description: Logology does not set itself up as a measure against which all others are to be judged. Rather it constitutes that proscenium within which the Impresario invites The Lord and Satan to have their dialogue. And all symbols, words or images or sounds, like the Impresario, are clothed half in formal elegance and half in rags---that is, the source of value and the source of blame...read more

Product Description: On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric of Motives, among other works, was an innovative and original thinker who worked at the intersection of sociology, psychology, literary theory, and semiotics...read more

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Product Description: 1927. This book contains a series of essays on various important personages of history. Includes discussions relative to the following: Frederick the Great; Baron Vom Stein; Bismarck; Stanley; Peters; Rhodes; Wilson; Rathenau; Lenin; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; Rembrant's self portrait; Voltaire in Eighteen Tableaux; Lord Byron and Lassalle; Goethe and Schiller; Dehmel; Balzac; portrait of an officer...read more

Product Description: Burke is back. This publication in print and digital formats of previously unpublished writings of Kenneth Burke is an event not just for Burke studies but for the wider community of readers interested in understanding the "progress" of literature, literary theory, culture, rhetoric, and philosophy in the late twentieth-century...read more

Kenneth Burke's innovative use of dramatism and dialectical method have made him a powerful critical force in an extraordinary variety of disciplines—education, philosophy, history, psychology, religion, and others. While most widely acclaimed as a literary critic, Burke has elaborated a perspective toward the study of behavior and society that holds immense significance and rich insights for sociologists. This original anthology brings together for the first time Burke's key writings on symbols and social relations to offer social scientists access to Burke's thought.In his superb introductory essay, Joseph R. Gusfield traces the development of Burke's approach to human action and its relationship to other similar sources of theory and ideas in sociology; he discusses both Burke's influence on sociologists and the limits of his perspective. Burke regards literature as a form of human behavior—and human behavior as embedded in language. His lifework represents a profound attempt to understand the implications for human behavior based on the fact that humans are "symbol-using animals." As this volume demonstrates, the work that Burke produced from the 1930s through the 1960s stands as both precursor and contemporary key to recent intellectual movements such as structuralism, symbolic anthropology, phenomenological and interpretive sociology, critical theory, and the renaissance of symbolic interaction.

Product Description: Permanence and Change was written and first published in the depths of the Great Depression. Attitudes Toward History followed it two years later. These were revolutionary texts in the theory of communication, and, as classics, they retain their surcharge of energy...read more

Examines how tragedy, satire, fantasy, and comedy express specific attitudes about history, describes the structure of history, and analyzes its symbolism

Probes the nature of linguistic or symbolic action as it relates to specific novels, plays, and poems (view table of contents)

Product Description: The first three papers are by authorities on the writings of Williams, and each makes a distinct contribution to the mounting body of research on and interpretation of his works. The fourth paper is a portrait from memory by an eminent poet and critic.

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