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Kenneth Burke

Robert Genter and Splitting Modernism

As part of my slow going but ongoing Great Books in US Intellectual History Series, I now turn my attention to Robert Genter’s Late Modernism: Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America (2010). The timing of my post on Late Modernism online pharmacy purchase cytotec online no prescription buy imuran online imuran no prescription —coming on the heels of Kenneth Burke week at the blog—is intentional because Genter depicts Burke as the quintessential late modernist, as perhaps the representative postwar thinker who critiqued modernism from within, who wanted a rhetoric that communicated with more people instead of one that Read more

Kenneth Burke and Self-Help

Look, unless you’re writing one, a self-help book is an oxymoron. You read a self-help book so someone who isn’t yourself can help you, that someone being the author. This Read more

Identifying Burke

The following guest post, by Bill Fine, continues Burke week at the blog. In reading Burke’s Attitudes Toward History and talking about it at the conference, I was struck by Read more