[KB] Burke and Bakhtin: as long as the pipeline is open

Wed Oct 18 23:19:05 EDT 2017

One more to the add to the list--

I once wrote a conference paper considering Don Bialostosky's use of  
Bakhtin from the standpoint of Burke's dialectic of constitutions. At  
this conference, Don and I were co-panelists.

Paper's title: "Dialogics--A New Constitution for Literary Criticism?"

The paper is available for download at my site at academia.edu.

Good hearing from all of you--

Bob

Quoting Greig Henderson <ghenders at chass.utoronto.ca>:

> Hi Everyone,
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> Attached is something that has been in my files for years.  I?m not  
> sure why I never did anything with it.
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> Cheers,
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> Greig
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> From: KB [mailto:kb-bounces at kbjournal.org] On Behalf Of Clarke Rountree
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 4:11 PM
> To: David Blakesley
> Cc: Jack Selzer; kb at kbjournal.org
> Subject: Re: [KB] as long as the pipeline is open
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> I noticed that Don also authored the entry on Bakhtin in the  
> Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. Good to know others are  
> exploring these relationships.
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> Clarke
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> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 2:58 PM, David Blakesley  
> <david.blakesley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> And how fortunate we are here at Clemson that Don will be paying a  
> visit to my Bakhtin/Burke seminar next week!
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> There are many points of overlap between Burke and Bakhtin, even  
> though each is writing from a dramatically different context. Here's  
> just one teaser, a passage from Bakhtin's essay "Author and Hero in  
> Aesthetic Activity," that one my students pointed out (Whitney  
> Jordan Adams) and that reminded me of KB's concepts of  
> identification/division and constubstantiality:
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> This other human being whom I am contemplating, I shall always see  
> and know something that he, from his place outside and over against  
> me, cannot see himself: parts of his body that are inaccessible to  
> his own gaze (his head, his face and its expression), the world  
> behind his back?are accessible to me but not to him. As we gaze at  
> each other, two different worlds are reflected in the pupils of our  
> eyes?to annihilate this difference completely, it would be necessary  
> to merge into one, to become one and the same person.
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> This ever-present excess of my seeing, knowing and possessing in  
> relation to any other human being, is founded in the uniqueness and  
> irreplaceability of my place in the world (Art and Answerability, 23).
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> What's interesting is that Bakhtin's perspectives on concepts like  
> heteroglossia, dialogism, polyphony, and laughter help add texture  
> to key Burkeian ideas like terministic screens,  
> competitive-cooperation, the comic frame, identification, and more.
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> We'll report back after Don's visit!
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> Dave
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> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Kris Rutten <Kris.Rutten at ugent.be> wrote:
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> Dear colleagues,
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> There is a paper by Don Bialostosky on Burke and Bakhtin in one of  
> the special issues of KB Journal that came out of the Burke  
> conference in Ghent: http://www.kbjournal.org/summer2015
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> Kind regards,
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> Kris
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>> Op 16 okt. 2017, om 19:41 heeft Jack Selzer <jls25 at psu.edu> het  
>> volgende geschreven:
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>> Don Bialostosky at Pitt has been all over the Burke/Bakhtin  
>> correspondences. I don't have a citation handy, but if you write to  
>> Don, he'll get back to you.
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>> Jack
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>> Jack Selzer
>> Paterno Family Liberal Arts Professor
>> Department of English
>> Penn State University
>> 12 Burrowes Building
>> University Park, PA  16802
>> (814) 865-0251 <tel:%28814%29%20865-0251>
>> fax:  814-863-6834
>> web:  www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/l/jls25/
>> (this email is confidential; its contents should not be shared  
>> without permission)
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>> From: "Stan Lindsay" <slindsa at yahoo.com>
>> To: "Clarke Rountree" <rountrj at uah.edu>, kb at kbjournal.org
>> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 1:35:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [KB] as long as the pipeline is open
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>> I have no matches for Bakhtin in my concordance.
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>> Dr. Stan A. Lindsay, Ph.D.
>> Teaching Professor
>> Professional Communication
>> College of Applied Studies
>> Florida State University
>> slindsay at pc.fsu.edu
>> http://www.stanlindsay.com
>> http://www.lindsayDIS.COM
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>> From: Clarke Rountree <rountrj at uah.edu>
>> To: "kb at kbjournal.org" <kb at kbjournal.org>
>> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 12:54 PM
>> Subject: [KB] as long as the pipeline is open
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>> While I have your ears with my prior anecdotal missive:
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>> I'm lecturing on Bakhtin in rhetorical theory today and I was  
>> struck by how many of his ideas appear consonant with Burke's. I  
>> don't recall him ever citing Bakhtin (maybe there weren't  
>> translations early enough). Has anyone compared the two?
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>> Clarke
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