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Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955
This volume contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy. Following Rueckert's Introduction, Burke lays out his approach in essays that theorize and illustrate the method, which he considered essential for understanding language as symbolic action and human relations generally.
The Ecocriticism Reader
This book is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology is the study of the ways that writing - from novels and folktales to U.S. government reports and corporate advertisements - both reflects and influences our interactions with the natural world.
Encounters with Kenneth Burke
William H. Rueckert's landmark 1963 study, Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations, is often credited with bringing the field of Burke studies into existence. Here, Rueckert has gathered his "encounters" with Burke over the past thirty years--brieft talks, position papers, rethinking and reformation of earlier ideas, and detailed analyses of individual texts--into one volume that offers readers the best of Burkean criticism.
On Human Nature
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. This book, a selection of fourteen representative pieces of his productive later years, addresses many important themes Burke tackled throughout his career such as logology (his attempt to find a universal language theory and methodology), technology, and ecology. The essays also elaborate Burke's notions about creativity and its relation to stress, language and its literary uses, the relation of mind and body, and more. Provocative, idiosyncratic, and erudite, On Human Nature makes a significant statement about cultural linguistics and is an important rounding-out of the Burkean corpus.
The Rhetoric of Religion
"But the point of Burke's work, and the significance of his achievement, is not that he points out that religion and language affect each other, for this has been said before, but that he proceeds to demonstrate how this is so by reference to a specific symbolic context. After a discussion 'On Words and The Word,' he analysess verbal action in St. Augustine's Confessions. He then discusses the first three chapters of Genesis, and ends with a brilliant and profound 'Prologue in Heaven,' an imaginary dialogue between the Lord and Satan in which he proposes that we begin our study of human motives with complex theories of transcendence,' rather than with terminologies developed in the use of si...
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment
The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and practice in the reading of literature and culture. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is, its methods, arguments and concepts, and will enable students to look at texts in a wholly new way. Boxed sections explain key critical terms and contemporary debates in the field with 'hands-on' examples and comparisons. Timothy Clark's thoughtful approach makes this an ideal first encounter with environmental readings of literature.
Unending Conversations
Henderson (English, U. of Toronto) and Williams (speech communication, U. of Missouri, Rolla) present this collection, which includes previously unpublished portions of two of Burke's manuscripts, Poetics, Dramatistically Considered and A Symbolic of Motives, as well as essays by seven U.S. and Canadian scholars. The ten pieces are organized into three sections on dialectics of expression, communication, and transcendence; criticism, symbolicity, and tropology; and transcendence and the theological motive. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Faulkner from Within
Rueckert tracks Faulkner's development as a novelist through 18 novels--ranging from "Flags in the Dust" to "The Reivers"--to show the turn in Faulkner from destructive to generative being, from tragedy to comedy, from pollution to purification and redemption.
A Channeling Handbook
Written for channels and those who would like to improve their channeling. Topics include: -What is channeling? -Why channel? -Psychic greetings/attacks -Temptations and the ethics of channeling -Channeling and Christianity "This handbook could not be more timely or useful. This is a wise, loving and 'must' reading for anyone." -Tam Mossman, Editor of Metapsychology, The Journal of Discarnate Intelligence
