Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950–1955. Kenneth Burke

Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950–1955 - Kenneth Burke


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      Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950–1955

      Kenneth Burke

      Selected, Arranged, and Edited by

      William H. Rueckert

      Parlor Press

      West Lafayette, Indiana

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      Permission to reprint selections in this volume are acknowledged in the chapters themselves. For their support of this project, we are grateful to The Kenneth Burke Literary Trust, the Chicago Review, the Hudson Review, the National Society for the Study of Education, the Sewanee Review, and Mrs. Eva Hindus.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Burke, Kenneth, 1897–1993.

      Essays toward a symbolic of motives, 1950–1955 / Kenneth Burke ; selected, arranged and edited by William H. Rueckert.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 1–932559–34–5 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 1–932559–35–3 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 1–932559–36–1 (adobe ebk.)

      1. Symbolism in literature. 2. Literary form. I. Rueckert, William H. (William Howe), 1926– II. Title.

      PN56.S9B87 2006

      809’.912--dc22

      2006034891

      Cover and book design by David Blakesley

      Printed on acid-free paper.

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      For David Blakesley and Barbara Rueckert,

      Dedicated Burkeans

      —WHR

      Contents

       Preface

       Introduction

       Part 1: Some Basic Requirements for a Dramatistic Poetic

       A “Dramatistic” View of “Imitation”

       Three Definitions

       The Language of Poetry, “Dramatistically” Considered

       Fact, Inference, and Proof in the Analysis of Literary Symbolism

       Part 2: Dramatistic Analyses of Individual Texts and Authors

       Ethan Brand: A Preparatory Investigation,

       The Orestes Trilogy

       Othello: An Essay to Illustrate a Method1

       The Vegetal Radicalism of Theodore Roethke

       Policy Made Personal: Whitman’s Verse and Prose-Salient Traits

       Part 3: By and Through Language, Beyond Language

       A Socioanagogic Approach to Literature: Selections from “Linguistic Approach to Problems of Education”

       Goethe’s Faust, Part I

       Index

      Preface

      The purpose of this collection is to finally make available in a single volume the essential texts, some long out of print and hard to come by, some never published, from Burke’s earliest version of A Symbolic of Motives. Some of the texts included here have been readily available in Language as Symbolic Action—such as the “Goethe’s Faust, Part I” essay—but others have not, and they include most of the rest of the material in this collection. I have briefly discussed all of these selections in the Introduction, “Versions of A Symbolic of Motives.”

      I am a big believer in the power of books, of having things readily available in a single volume one can take off the shelf and study over and over again. I have known most of the essays for a long time, but it has always been my ambition to have them in a single book on the shelf next to Burke’s other books. Thanks to David Blakesley, Parlor Press, and my wife Barbara, I have finally realized that ambition in this, my last, Burke project.

      William H. Rueckert

      Fairport, NY

      January, 2003

      Introduction


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