Transcendence By Perspective
Meditations on and with Kenneth Burke
Published on 15. July 2014
217 pages
978-1-60235-530-9 (ISBN)
Description
The nine contributors to this collection examine rhetorician Kenneth Burke's understanding of transcendence, applying it to a wide range of social and political issues, including racial and presidential politics.
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Content
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Burkean Perspectives on Transcendence: A Prospective Retrospective
- Bryan Crable
- 1 Race Ritual, Then and Now: Bridging the Transcendental Dialectics of Kenneth Burke, Ralph Ellison, and Barack Obama
- John S. Wright
- 2 Transcendence in the Barnyard: Thoughts on Strategic Approaches to the Political Art
- James F. Klumpp
- 3 Rounding (Out) the Bases of Racial Reconciliation: (Dia)Logology and Virginia's Apology For Slavery
- John B. Hatch
- 4 From Tragedy to Comedy: A Pentadic Analysis Contrasting Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Rhetoric, 1993-1994 and 2008
- Theon E. Hill
- 5 The Good Wife (According to Dr. Phil, et al.): A Representative Anecdote Of Burkean Analysis
- Cathryn Hill and Richard M. Coe
- 6 Transcendence by Colonial Perspective: Bureaucratization, F. Max Müller, and the Sacred Books of the East (1879)
- Abigail Selzer King
- 7 Transcendence after Dialogue
- Gregory Clark
- 8 Kenneth Burke and the Dark Side of Transcendence: Localism, Wendell Berry, and the New Southern Agrarians
- Andrew King
- Contributors
- Index
- Back cover
