[KB] Just published: KB special issue of Literature of the Americas

[David Blakesley]

This is a fantastic collection, Bryan (and all the contributors).
Congratulations!

I can't wait to see how our Russian colleagues respond.

до свида́ния!
Dave

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 1:12 PM Bryan Crable <bryan.crable at villanova.edu>
wrote:

> Hello, friends and colleagues—
>
>
>
> I just wanted to announce an exciting bit of news: the introduction of
> Kenneth Burke to Russian literary scholars!
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>
>
> The most recent issue of the journal *Literature of the Americas *has a
> special section focusing on Burke and his work. The journal is edited by
> Prof. Olga Panova at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the
> Russian Academy of Sciences, and is open-access, so it is readily
> accessible by all those interested in Burke’s work.
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>
>
> The issue consists of new essays (English-language) by a number of
> well-known Burkeans—including an essay by Clarke Rountree on the origins of
> the KBS—but also features an essay in Russian by a Lithuanian scholar, as
> well as a Russian translation of Burke’s “Revolutionary Symbolism in
> America”—prefaced by Olga’s essay discussing the Soviet reception of
> Burke’s speech, drawn from archival research. (The last of these is enough
> to prompt me to try and learn Russian!)
>
>
>
> There’s lots to be excited about here, I think, and so hopefully you all
> will check it out. To access this issue, please visit one of these links:
>
> http://litda.ru/index.php/ru/nomera-zhurnala/370-9-2020 (Russian version)
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> http://litda.ru/index.php/en/issues/371-9-2020   (English version)
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> You can download articles and/or the full version of the issue.
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>
> Best wishes to one and all as we move forward into this new year—
>
>
>
> Bryan Crable
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>
> --
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> Bryan Crable, Ph.D.
>
> Professor of Communication/Rhetorical Studies
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> Affiliated faculty, Africana Studies
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> Director, Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and
> Society
> Author, *Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial
> Divide* (University of Virginia Press, 2012)
>
> Editor, *Transcendence by Perspective: Meditations on and with Kenneth
> Burke* (Parlor Press, 2014)
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