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  • Postmodern Burke
  • Greig Henderson (bio)
Robert Wess. Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism Cambridge University Press 1996. 262. US$ 54.95, $18.95 paper
Jack Selzer. Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village: Conversing with Moderns, 1915–1931 University of Wisconsin Press 1996. 284. US $50.00, $19.95 paper
Greig Henderson

Greig Henderson
Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto Kenneth Burke: Literature and Language as Symbolic Action (1988)

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——— Counter-Statement. 1931. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press 1968
——— Towards a Better Life. 1932. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press 1966
——— Permanence and Change, an Anatomy of Purpose. 1935. 3rd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press 1984
——— Attitudes toward History. 1937. 3rd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press 1984
——— A Grammar of Motives. 1945. Berkeley: University of California Press 1969
——— A Rhetoric of Motives. 1950. Berkeley: University of California Press 1969
——— The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action. 1941. 3rd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press 1973
——— A Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology. 1961. Berkeley: University of California Press 1970
——— Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: University of California Press 1966
Carmichael, Thomas. ‘Postmodernism, Symbolicity, and the Rhetoric of the Hyperreal: Kenneth Burke, Fredric Jameson, and Jean Baudrillard.’ Text and Performance Quarterly 11 (1991), 319–24
Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1981
Lentricchia, Frank. Criticism and Social Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1983
Wess, Robert. ‘Kenneth Burke's “Dialectic of Constitutions.”’ pre/text 12 (1991), 9–30
Williams, David. ‘Under the Sign of (An)Nihilation.’ The Legacy of Kenneth Burke. Ed Herbert W. Simons and Trevor Melia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1989
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