Taking Burke On(line): The Kenneth Burke Bibliography and Archival Project

 

 

The Bibliography Project

The primary bibliography, listing works by Burke, contains 595 entries. The secondary bibliography contains 724 entries. Both bibliographies are searchable, up-to-date, and may be viewed and printed in PDF format. A comment box allows users to provide updates to either of the bibliographies.

The bibilographies are fully searchable now. "And/Or searches are possible..--D.B.

An Overview and Summaries of the Hugh Dalziel Duncan/ Kenneth Burke Correspondence, 1938-70
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Special Collections--Morris Library

Part of the Hugh Dalziel Duncan Papers Collection 17-25-F1

Prepared by Jerry Ross, Jackie Pieterick, Gary Scott Groce, Mark Letcher, Connie Sorensen-Birk, and David Blakesley Department of English, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 62901

Project Director: David Blakesley
Director of Special Collections: David Koch
Curator of Manuscripts: Karen Dupell Drickamer

The Burke-L Repository of Conference Papers
Presently containing nine papers, as well as links to abstracts of papers presented at the 1999 Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, the Repository will be expanded significantly once the Conference papers have been prepared for the web.
The William H. Rueckert-Kenneth Burke Correspondence (1959-1987)

This collection has now been published by Parlor Press, its first book. For more information, see the book's description. A Preliminary Index of this collection of important correspondence was published at the KB site in 1999. It lists 261 letters, cards, and other documents exchanged between Kenneth Burke and William H. Rueckert.

The FBI Files

"Some of it turns up once in a while, but most of it's vanished. Maybe it's in the FBI files for all I know. . . ." (Burke in the All Area interview, recalling his work for Colonel Arthur Woods on The Dangerous Drugs project for The League of Nations.)

This project was launched by Todd W. Deam. The files have been scanned and transcribed. Running commentary by David Blakesley accompanies each page.

The "Road to Victory"

"In an exhibit of photographic murals at the Museum of Modern Art, there was an aerial photograph of two launches, proceeding side by side on a tranquil sea. . . ." (Burke in A Grammar of Motives, xvi, on the the image he used to imagine the workings of the pentad.)

View the image and read Elaine Burklow's "Notes on 'Road to Victory: A Procession of Photography of the Nation at War." The image is used here with the permission of the Museum of Modern Art.

"Kenneth Burke's 'Definition of Human,'" a hypertext essay by Jerry Ross.

 

 

Last Updated: 17 February 2001--David Blakesley 
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