Appendix 4: SM Material Published to Date

1-16 UNCOLLECTED

Published as
• “The Poetic Motive,” Hudson Review 40 (Spring 1958): 54-63. [UC 29]

17-28 UNPUBLISHED

Approximately 12 ms. pages of new material

29-43 UNPUBLISHED

Approximately 8 ms. pages of new material Considerably revised expansion of PDC 1-6, partially published in both
• “Unburned Bridges of Poetics, or How to Keep Poetry Pure,” Centennial Review 8 (Fall 1964): 391-97. [UC 25] and
• “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, 35-80 (as section on “‘Poetic,’ ‘Aesthetic,’ and ‘Artistic,’” 35-38).

44-59 UNPUBLISHED

Approximately 9 ms. pages of new material Considerably revised expansion of PDC 7-13, partially published in
• “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, 35-80 (as section on “Logic of the Terms,” 38-42).

60-90 PARTIALLY PUBLISHED

SM 60-85 corresponding to PDC 14-35 (36-37 were dropped) was slightly revised, truncated, and published in both
• “A ‘Dramatistic’ View of Imitation,” Accent 12 (Autumn 1952): 229-41. [UC 25] and
• “A ‘Dramatistic’ View of Imitation,” Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 5-18.
SM 85-89 is new material except for long footnote on PDC 37

91-128 UNPUBLISHED

Approximately 6 ms. pages of new material (SM 118-22,125) Remainder published in
• “Glimpses into a Labyrinth of Interwoven Motives,” Unending Conversations, 81-98.
Some material may be drawn from LSA, pp. 81-97 and 223-39.

129-33 UNPUBLISHED

Approximately 5 ms. pages of new material

134-179 UNCOLLECTED + UNPUBLISHED

SM 134-52 corresponds to PDC 38-56 which was published in
• “On Catharsis, or Resolution, with a Postscript,” Kenyon Review 21 (Summer 1959): 337-75. [UC 25]
Approximately 27 ms. pages ( SM 153-79) of new material.

180-90 UNPUBLISHED

Approximately 3 ms. pages (SM 188-90) of new material SM 180-88 corresponds to PDC 312-16 which was published as
• “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, 35-80 (within section on “Beyond Catharsis,” 66-70).

191-222 UNPUBLISHED + UNCOLLECTED

Approximately 13 ms. pages of new material
SM 191-212 corresponds to PDC 56-74, an expansion of approximately 3 ms. pages.
SM 213-22 is new.
PDC 56-74 was published in

• “On Catharsis, or Resolution, with a Postscript,” Kenyon Review 21 (Summer 1959): 337-75. [UC 25]

223-269 UNPUBLISHED

A thoroughly revised, abridged version of PDC 75-178
A thoroughly revised version excerpted from PDC 75-178 and published as
• “The Thinking of the Body: Comments on the Imagery of Catharsis in Literature,” Psychoanalytic Review 50 (Fall 1963): 25-68.
Later collected in LSA 308-43. [UC 23, 26-27]

270-371? PUBLISHED

SM 270 ff. presumably corresponds with PDC 179-199 which was published as
• “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations 35-80 (as section on “Form,” 41-52).
PDC 179-199 and 200-280 was abridged and published in
• “Form & Persecution in the Oresteia , ” Sewanee Review 60 (Summer 1952): 377-96.
And later collected in LSA 125-38. [UC 23]
PDC 200-280 (the edited LSA 128-38) was published in its original, unedited form as
• “The Orestes Trilogy,” Essays toward a Symbolic of Motives, 103-47.

372-402? PUBLISHED

Presumably corresponds to PDC 281-311, “Beyond Catharsis” published in
• “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations 35-80 (within section on “Beyond Catharsis,” 52-66).
SM 180-88 corresponds to PDC 312-16 which was published as
• “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations 35-80 (within section on “Beyond Catharsis,” 66-70).
In “Plan of This Particular Book” (SM 29), Burke alludes to an analysis of Dante’s Divine Comedy included in this section (PDC 294-96; UC 58-59).>br> Apparent summaries of original section can be found in >
• “Rhetoric and Poetics,” a talk presented at a Symposium on the History and Significance of Rhetoric, May 1965, under the auspices of the Dept. of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
First published in LSA 298-99. Discussion of “the Beyond” can also be found in the essay on Emerson (see below).

403-43? UNCOLLECTED

The SM 148 reference to a later chapter on “Catharsis (Universal Aspect)” corresponding with the PDC 52 reference to a later chapter on “Catharsis (Second View)”covering PDC 320-360 which was published as
• “Catharsis—Second View,” Centennial Review of Arts and Science 5 (Spring 1961): 107-132. [UC 38]

444-87? PARTIALLY PUBLISHED

Burke’s further look (?) at transcendence implied earlier (SM 169).
Presumably corresponding to PDC 361-374 and partially published in
• “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Con­versations 35-80 (as section on “Platonic Transcendence,” 70-77).
Perhaps incorporat­ing the Emerson essay—itself incorporating elements of “Platonic Transcendence”—which appears to be Burke’s most mature discussion of “catharsis and transcendence.”
• “I, Eye, Ay—Concerning Emerson’s Early Essay on ‘Nature,’ and the Machi­nery of Transcendence,” Sewanee Review 74 (Fall 1966): 875-95. Later collected in LSA 186-200.
The essay is equivalent to approximately 30 ms. pages. Williams cites Burke’s June 1955 letter to Cowley (UC 13) in which he speaks of not yet having revised a new section—a “big item in my godam Symbolic”—devoted to Emerson’s essay on “Nature,” but Williams never mentions it again. Burke seems not to have incorporated the Emerson essay into the PDC manuscript which Williams has dated 1957-58, suggesting that the essay perhaps was to be incorporated later. Discussion of comic catharsis would perhaps have preceded it. Essays on Emerson,
• Djuna Barnes: “Version, Con-, Per-, and In- (Thoughts on Djuna Barnes’s Novel Nightwood), Southern Review, n.s. 2 (Spring 1966): 329-46. Later collected in LSA 240-253],
and
• E. M. Forster: “Social and Cosmic Mystery: A Passage to India,” Lugano Review 1 (Summer 1966): 140-55. Later collected in LSA 223-239.
were published in 1966 and “Rhetoric and Poetics”(see above) in 1965; all involve some discussion of “the beyond,” or “beyonding,” suggesting that Burke is still working hard on the SM in the mid-1960s—specifically on the issues of “drama and catharsis, dialectic and transcendence.”

SUMMARY

• Unpublished material: 135 ms. pages
• Uncollected material: 98 ms. pages
• Published in LSA: 158 ms. pages
• Published in UC: 117 ms. pages
• Published in Essays: 107 ms. pages

Symbolic of Motives

Approximate page totals for the existing manuscript

*a 47 ms. page revision of the second version in LSA 308-43

Symbolic of Motives

Approximate page totals for the supposed remainder

*the original 81 page section is edited and revised as LSA 125-38

Symbolic of Motives

Overall approximate page totals for the reconstructed volume