[KB] CFP for Burke Pedagogy volume

Tue Apr 23 12:57:07 EDT 2019

Burkophiles,

Ann and Elizabeth’s proposal for a book on teaching Burke sounds great. A few self-indulgent thoughts:
I don’t see Burke in danger of disappearing from the scene anytime soon---at least not his ideas. Someone might eventually supersede Burke, incorporating dramatism/logology into some broader scheme. But the pith and marrow of Burkology is too rooted in the fundamentals of language and human being not to endure, it seems to me. The pentad and the guilt-redemption cycle, for instance---and their inexorable interrelationship---are so deeply embedded in the nature of homo dialecticus, homo loauax, indeed homo dramatist, that their utility as interpretive and analytical tools is near indispensable. Homo dramatist as the perspective that most effectively critiques the honorific homo sapiens is becoming more and more patent as humankind steamrolls ever more heedlessly toward oblivion in our own day. What basically motivates this strange creature? It’s surely not his or her powers of rationality, brilliant though they are. Drama, hierarchal perfection, the hortatory power of pious verbal linkages, trump all, pun intended.

In a recent special issue of one of the communication journals, a commentator on the submissions noted that one displays the “continued relevance of Burke.” Well, I guess. How could it not? How much has human nature evolved in just 26 years, anyway?

More later, perhaps, on the book idea itself, a great and timely one.

Ed       

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On Mon, 4/22/19, Selzer, John L <jls25 at psu.edu> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [KB] CFP for Burke Pedagogy volume
 To: "George, Ann" <a.george at tcu.edu>, "kb at kbjournal.org" <kb at kbjournal.org>
 Date: Monday, April 22, 2019, 2:19 PM

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 I’m not going to do an abstract
 (too lazy), but if you want something along these lines, I
 could whip it up: 

 Doing Rhetorical Analysis With
 Kenneth Burke 
 --Burke’s motto: “use
 everything” 
 --capitalizing on Burke’s
 conversation metaphor: recover the author’s original
 rhetorical situation and discover how the piece is in
 conversation with other pieces written at that cultural
 moment 
 --Example: our analysis of the
 Cowley book review of the Dos Passos novel 
 --Equipping students to do
 practical criticism 
 --Example student
 analysis 
 --Conclusion: Writing as a
 response to a challenge—an approach to writing
 pedagogy 

 J 

 From: KB
 <kb-bounces at kbjournal.org>
 On Behalf Of George, Ann

 Sent: Friday, April 19, 2019 12:16 PM

 To: kb at kbjournal.org

 Subject: [KB] CFP for Burke Pedagogy
 volume 

 Greetings, Burkeans! 

 Liz Weiser and I are
 putting together an edited collection on Burkean pedagogy,
 and we hope you’ll consider submitting a piece to the
 volume. We’d like to get more teachers and students to
 engage
  with the theorist and pedagogue who’s been so influential
 to all of our work.  

 Please pass the
 attached CFP along to anyone you think might be
 interested. 

 Ann George 

 Ann George, Professor 
 Department of English 
 Faculty Affiliate, Program in Women
 & Gender Studies 
 TCU Box 297270 
 Texas Christian University 
 Fort Worth, TX 76129 
 817.257.6247 (O) 
 a.george at tcu.edu 

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