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

[Rochelle Gregory]

I agree! Wow!

Congrats on all your hard work!
R

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:59 AM David Blakesley <david.blakesley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> http://litda.ru/index.php/en/issues/371-9-2020   (English version)
>>
>>
>>
>> You can download articles and/or the full version of the issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes to one and all as we move forward into this new year—
>>
>>
>>
>> Bryan Crable
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bryan Crable, Ph.D.
>>
>> Professor of Communication/Rhetorical Studies
>>
>> Affiliated faculty, Africana Studies
>>
>> 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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>>
>>
>>
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