...Robert Genter Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 w Toward a Theory of Rhetoric: Ralph Ellison, Kenneth Burke, and the Problem of Modernism Robert Genter In 1937 a major shift in American intellectual circles occurred with the rebirth of the literary journal Partisan...

... evaluation of ‘curiosity’” (2004, 44). As the case of Edmund Burke demonstrates, the term remained controversial well into the eighteenth century. Perhaps already attuned to its overtones of political insurgency, the young Burke begins his treatise of aesthetic psychology, A Philosophical Enquiry...

... of Bertrand Russell’s Problems of Philosophy, F. H. Bradley’s Appearance and Reality, numerous articles about socialism and democracy by G. B. Shaw, journalism by Randolph Bourne, Hegel’s An Introduction to the Philosophy of History, Prior’s life of Edmund Burke and Burke’s “Letter to a Noble Lord...

... out of the 1857 Mutiny and was used as the justification for the greater martial and economic control characteristic of what Paxton calls the “New Imperialism” (194). While Paxton astutely points out that this “rape script” (3) replaced Edmund Burke’s earlier script of Britain’s rape...

... with Questions: Mary Butts’s Sacred Interroga­ tive.” 49.3 (2003): 360-387 Burke, Kenneth. See Genter Butts, Mary. See Buchanan arson, Luke. “James Merrill’s Manners and Elizabeth Bishop’s Dismay” 50.2 (2004): 167-191 Carstens, Lisa. “Sexual Politics and Confessional Testimony in Sophie’s...

... . Manifestoes of Surrealism . Translated by Seaver Richard Lane Helen R. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Breton André Aragon Louis . 1982 . “ La Cinquantenaire de l’hystérie (1878–1928) .” La Révolution surréaliste 11 , no. 1 : 20 – 22 . Burke Kenneth . 1957...

... associate them with a level of society that history has not ad­ equately recorded. (“On Burke” 256) For O ’Meally and other critics, this scene provides one of the clearest examples of Ellison’s characterization of official history as an arbitrary and exclusive record. Eric Sundquist mentions...

... and the Authorial Subject” Seán Burke proposes a classification of the feminist movement through its relation to the question of the author. According to his classification the revisionist stance sets out “to redefine authorship over and against the patriarchal model” (1995, 145). 5 In an essay on what she...

... the arguments—Barthes’s and Foucault’s primarily—that underwrite the death of the author. But rather than advance a theoretical polemic on the model of Seán Burke’s The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida,  Widdis offers readings of literary works...

... . Edited by Jack Ian Inglesfield Robert . 15 vols . Oxford : Clarendon . Burke Edmund . 1998 . A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful . Edited by Phillips Adam . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Civello Catherine...

..., dying in this dead class like plants decaying in foul soil” (1935, 22, 23). To roughly the same point, Kenneth Burke avers that “beneath a seasonal economic ill lies a basic cultural ill” (1931, 329) and Edmund Wilson’s bracing conclusion to a 1932 New Republic article posits a blind alley in which...

... sexuality” (194), the redemptive ending (195), chiasmic mirroring (205), and “psychic disavowal” (206). The idea of the sublime as a defense against terror is, of course, a staple of theories of the sublime from Edmund Burke onward and situates the sublime on the side of power, repression, the ego...

... Sherley Anne . 1975 . “ Any Woman’s Blues .” In The Peacock Poems , 25 . Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press . Witchard Anne Veronica . 2009 . Thomas Burke’s Dark Chinoiserie: Limehouse Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown . Burlington, VT : Ashgate . Wright Richard...

... by Kenneth Burke in A Rhetoric of Motives. 7. This is certainly the case with cuneiform, a form of abstract inscription that predates the aleph-beth by perhaps as much as 2000 years. The relevant point here is that its complexity restricted its use and thus restricted the effects of literacy...

... and modernity. Nowadays it seems obligatory to cite Adorno, whose voice is heard most frequently in Greenberg’s final chapter on Beckett—an excursus for which Greenberg has the good grace to ask to be forgiven (169)—but Greenberg’s responses to the perfectly chosen words of Kenneth Burke and Richard...

... with the dominant modes of feminist poetry or with what they perceived as the male-dominated Language scene, Kathleen Fraser, along with other editors including Susan Gevirtz, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Francis Jaffer, Beverly Dahlen, and Carolyn Burke founded this feminist journal devoted...

... and Judith Still. New York: Routledge, 1992. . An Ethics of Sexual Difference. Trans. Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993. . Ethique de la différence sexuelle. Paris: Editions de minuit, 1984. . “The Fecundity of the Caress: A Reading of Levinas, Totality...

...” (69), while Murphy claims that Burroughs sought (and late in his career found) “an escape route from the linked control systems of capital, subjectivity, and language” (4). In part, my objection to these perspec- tives reflects Seán Burke’s insight that “it is to the very romantic tradition...

... the curriculum of another esteemed institution, Milton Academy. For example, the plays by Shakespeare, the essays by Burke and Macaulay, the histories of and translations from Latin, Greek, and French that Eliot accomplished in his sixth year class—a breadth that both amazes and worries Ackroyd by its...

... Michael . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Burke Kenneth . (1941) 1974 . “ Literature as Equipment for Living .” In The Philosophy of Literary Form , 293 – 304 . Berkeley : University of California Press . Burns Edward M. Dydo Ulla E. Rice William , eds...