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Special Book Review: Swan Dive
Michael Burke, Swan Dive. New York: Pleasure Boat Studio, Caravel Mysteries. 2009.Michael Burke forwarded to us an online review of Swan Dive by Teri Davis. Here are excerptsBelow is the review for...
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Recently Released: Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Burke has been widely praised as one of the sharpest readers of Shakespeare, Freud, and Marx, among others. He was also well known for turning his many book reviews into essays and excursions...
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“The Burke I Knew”: An Interview with Professor James Klumpp
Andy KingKing: Can you tell our readers how long you have been part of the Burke Society?J.K.: I was, as they say, there at the founding. I attended the first meeting set up by Herb Simon in...
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Attitudes Toward Kenneth Burke in Inside Higher Ed
Intellectual Affairs columnist for Inside Higher EdScott McLemee has written an excellent piece on KBS 2011 at Clemson. Here's a brief excerpt:Attitudes Toward Kenneth Burke. . . The triennial meeting...
View ArticleImagine that you enter a (newly refurbished) parlor
The parlor metaphor? Really? Isn’t that a little obvious? A little too pious?Sure, it is appropriate: KB Journal is in effect the parlor of the Kenneth Burke Society, the place where the interminable...
View ArticleKB Journal Video Parlor #1: An Introduction
KBJournal Editors Paul Lynch and Nathaniel Rivers discuss their vision for the journal as well as new features they plan on introducing this Fall. This is also a trial run for a planned series of video...
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Conference Call: Rhetoric in Europe
From the attached CFP:"Since antiquity, rhetoric has reigned as one of the great European traditions in education. Currently, as the importance of media of all kind is growing in daily communication,...
View ArticleCFP: Rhetoric as Equipment for Living. Kenneth Burke, Culture and Education
Ghent University 22nd to 25th May 2013 Ghent, BelgiumEnquiries: kbconference@ugent.be Web address: http://www.cultureeducation.ugent.be/kennethburke Extended deadline (!) for proposal submissions:...
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KBS 2014: Attitudes Toward Technology/Technology's Attitudes
Fast FactsConference Dates: July 17-20, 2014Proposal Deadline: January 31, 2014Proposal Window: October 1, 2013 to January 31, 2013Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2014Registration Window: March 1,...
View ArticleKBS 2014: Attitudes Toward Technology/Technology's Attitudes
Fast FactsConference Dates: July 17-20, 2014Proposal Deadline: January 31, 2014Proposal Window: October 1, 2013 to January 31, 2014Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2014Registration Window: March 1,...
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Review: Pragmatist Politics by John McGowan
McGowan, John. Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal Democracy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.Paul Stob, Department of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University John...
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Review: Rhetorical Listening by Krista Ratcliffe
Ratcliffe, Krista. Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. 248 pages.Steven M. Pedersen, Oklahoma State UniversityDuring the 2005...
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Review: The Chameleon President by Clarke Rountree
Four Ways of Looking at Eleven Ways of Looking Clarke Rountree, The Chameleon President: The Curious Case of George W. Bush. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2013.Jason C. Thompson, University of WyomingIIn...
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Redemptive Resistance through Hybrid Victimage
Catholic Guilt, Mortification, and Transvaluation in the Case of the Milwaukee FourteenChristopher Oldenburg, Illinois CollegeAbstractIn 1968 the Milwaukee Fourteen, members of the Catholic...
View ArticleParabolic Tale, with Invocation
Kenneth BurkeAnd the old man, being an old man, and therefore a senex, and entitled to give counsel, asked the young man: "Young man, what do you know?" And the young man, who had felled trees, had...
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Kenneth Burke Having nothing to do, and having searched in vain among the notes of a piano for something to think on, I started off on a walk, trusting that I might scent a scandal on the breeze, or...
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Kenneth Burke As I entered the room, he was reading one of his poems to a very moth-eaten person. “Catalogus Mulierum,” he grunted at me, and went on with the poem. From which I assumed that the title...
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Three Short Film Adaptations
"Parabolic Tale, with Invocation," The Excursion," and "Scherzando"Jimmy Butts, Wake Forest UniversityIntroductionI have become increasingly interested in the process of adapting literature to the...
View ArticleVideo Parlor: Action and Motion Featuring Debra Hawhee and Bryan Crable
Debra Hawhee and Bryan Crable discuss the Action-Motion distinction in this "Video Parlor":From the Editors' IntroductionIn this video discussion between Debra Hawhee and Bryan Crable, “Video Parlor:...
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A Note from the Editors
Welcome to issue 9.1 of KB Journal. We are very pleased to present the issue, which features many new elements as we nudge the journal in new directions. As a result, 9.1 broadly reflects a series of...
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