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Kenneth Burke’s Permanence and Change Studies in Rhetoric/Communication Thomas W. Benson, Series Editor Kenneth Burke’s Permanence and Change A Critical Companion Ann George a The University of South Carolina Press © 2018 University of South Carolina Published by the University of South Carolina Press Columbia, South Carolina 29208 www.sc.edu/uscpress 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data can be found at http://catalog.loc.gov/. ISBN 978-1-61117-931-6 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-61117-932-3 (ebook) For David, my truest companion What Burke offers—and it is the reason why so many of us turn to him for help—is a methodology, a way of thinking, and of testing our thinking, about how we act as human beings. We leave Burke’s wonder- ful books in sadness, but in this sadness is hope. If, in the suffering and horror of our time, we can develop a method for the analysis of what symbols do to us in our relations with each other, we may yet learn to lead a better life. Such is Burke’s message to our time. Hugh Dalziel Duncan, “Introduction,” Permanence and Change, 1965 Contents List of Illustrations ix Series Editor’s Preface xi Preface xiii Abbreviations xvi Introduction A Reshaping of the Terms 1 Part I. Translating Burkean Terms One. Pieties, Perspectives, and Incongruities 29 Two. Metabiology as Purification of War 54 Three. Enacting the Poetic Orientation 86 Part II. Archival Interventions Four. Caught in the Act A Writer in the Archives 127 Five. Archival Recalcitrance The Ins and Outs of Communism 164 Six. Finding the Time for Burke 190 Conclusion A New Rhetoric and Civic Pedagogy (to Save the World) 206 Appendix A Toward a P&C Chronology 225 Appendix B Works Referenced in P&C 227 Notes 231 Works Cited 249 Index 263 Illustrations Toward Los Angeles, California. Dorothea Lange. March 1937 5 First edition title page 8 Burke’s Latin and Greek transcriptions of Matthew 16:18 59 “Perspective by Incongruity” notes #6 and #11 140 “Perspective by Incongruity” numbered outline 141 Draft page from “Perspective by Incongruity” 144 Hermes Scroll #7. Hermes Publications, 1953 185 March 1935 New Republic ad for Permanence and Change 196 ix
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