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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello, friends and colleagues—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I just wanted to announce an exciting bit of news: the introduction of Kenneth Burke to Russian literary scholars!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The most recent issue of the journal
<i>Literature of the Americas </i>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://litda.ru/index.php/ru/nomera-zhurnala/370-9-2020">http://litda.ru/index.php/ru/nomera-zhurnala/370-9-2020</a> (Russian version)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://litda.ru/index.php/en/issues/371-9-2020">http://litda.ru/index.php/en/issues/371-9-2020</a> (English version)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">You can download articles and/or the full version of the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best wishes to one and all as we move forward into this new year—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bryan Crable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Bryan Crable, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Professor of Communication/Rhetorical Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Affiliated faculty, Africana Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Director, Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society<br>
Author, <i>Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide</i> (University of Virginia Press, 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Editor, <i>Transcendence by Perspective: Meditations on and with Kenneth Burke</i> (Parlor Press, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Department of Communication<br>
Villanova University<br>
800 Lancaster Ave.<br>
Villanova, PA 19085-1699 USA<br>
+1 610-519-4751 (tel)<br>
bryan.crable@villanova.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">My pronouns: he/him/his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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