The following collection of conference papers on Kenneth Burke allows those not able to attend the live performance a chance to stay abreast of the latest work on Burke presented at conferences sponsored by organizations such as the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the National Communication Association (NCA), the Modern Language Association (MLA), and the Kenneth Burke Society. Papers and links to papers on Burke will continue to accrue over time, so check back.

(March 1999): Abstracts of papers accepted for inclusion on the 1999 Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society program are now online. For a full listing of them in context, go to the Conference Program. Clicking on each paper title will take you to its abstract.

Papers are listed in the order of their publication at the repository . . .

Pentadic Cartography: Mapping Obstetric Medicine and Traditional Midwifery
Cyd C. Ropp, NCA, November 2002
(Top Competitive Paper Award)

Kenneth Burke and the Construction of Political Identities

Ekaterina V. Haskins, NCA, Nov. 1998

Toward Understanding the Pathology of B(urkeian) O(ccupational) P(sychosis) (also known as Goad Roper’s Disease)

W. Lance Haynes, NCA, November 1999

"At the Very Start, One's Terms Jump to Conclusions": Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and Ideological Inquiry (A Position Statement)

David Blakesley, CCCC, April 1999

Kenneth Burke in/and/around Composition: A Look at the Journals

Jeff White, CCCC, March 1997

"The Perfect Enemy": Clinton, the Contradictions of Capitalism, and Slaying the Sin Within

Virginia Anderson

1999 KBS Triennial Conference

The Dialectic of John Locke’s Constitution Then and Now; or, The Turn from Enlightenment to Post-Enlightenment Culture

Robert Wess

1999 KBS Triennial Conference, May 23, 1999

Burke to Basics: Dialogue and Culture in Core Curricula and the First-Year Writing Program

Dennis Ciesielski

1999 KBS Triennial Conference, May 22, 1999

The Agon(y) of Burke

Edward C. Brewer

NCA, 1998

Love, Knowledge, and Authority as Recombinant God-Terms

Virginia Kohl

NCA, 1998

Heeding the Storyteller’s Cues: Rhetoric as Listening

Julie Bokser, CCCC, April 1998

 

Tending to the Imagination: Perspective and Incongruity in William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Burke

Mark C. Long, MLA, December 1997

 

William Carlos Williams's Influence on Kenneth Burke

David Blakesley, MLA, December 1997

 

Sociality in the Rhetorics of Kenneth Burke and Chaim Perelman: Toward a Convergence of Their Theories

Jim Hanson, NCA, November 1997

 

Musings on the Emptiness and Dreariness of Postmodern Critique

Bruce E. Gronbeck, NCA, November 1997

 

Nailed to the Pentad: A Dramatistic Look at the Death of Kurt Cobain

Seth Kahn-Egan, NCA, November 1997

 

The Burkean Legacy and Composition; or, Five Dogs in Search of Meaning

Angelo Bonadonna, CCCC, March 13, 1997

 

Kenneth Burke, Identification, and Rhetorical Criticism in the Writing Classroom

Gregory Clark, CCCC, March 13, 1997

 

The Question of Kenneth Burke's Identity--and Permanence and Change

Timothy Crusius, CCCC, March 13, 1997