Sept 25: Film: The Burke Interviews

Digital Packet: “Revolutionary Symbolism in America” and responses by Gold, Freeman, et al.. The PDF file with these readings is listed below.
Online at KB Journal: “‘We Write for the Workers’”: Authorship and Communism in Kenneth Burke and Richard Wright” by John Logie.

Suggested Prompt and Tag (pick one question or write your own): 1) How would you explain the reception of Burke's speech? How might his use and understanding of rhetoric (somewhat against the grain, as it is) cultivated that response? or 2) What, from a Burkeian perspective, is the rhetoric of myth? How might this understanding contribute to an understanding of rhetoric more generally as social and symbolic action? Identification? Tag: Revolutionary Symbolism.

Sept 27: Film: The Burke Interviews