The Legacy of Kenneth Burke

Rhetoric of the Human Sciences

by Herbert W. Simons, Trevor Melia (Editor)

Capturing the lively modernist milieu of Kenneth Burke’s early career in Greenwich Village, where Burke arrived in 1915 fresh from high school in Pittsburgh, this book discovers him as an intellectual apprentice conversing with “the moderns.” Burke found himself in the midst of an avant-garde peopled by Malcolm Cowley, Marianne Moore, Jean Toomer, Katherine Anne Porter, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, Hart Crane, Alfred Stieglitz, and a host of other fascinating figures. s transformation from aesthete to social critic.

324 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989