The Legacy of Kenneth Burke

(Part of the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences Series)

by Herbert W. Simons

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Capturing the lively modernist milieu of Kenneth Burke's early career in Greenwich Village, where Burke arrived in 1915 fresh from high school in Pittsburgh, this book discovers him as an intellectual apprentice conversing with "the moderns." Burke found himself in the midst of an avant-garde peopled by Malcolm Cowley, Marianne Moore, Jean Toomer, Katherine Anne Porter, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, Hart Crane, Alfred Stieglitz, and a host...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0299118347

ISBN13:9780299118341

Release Date:January 1989

Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press

Length:324 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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