Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke focuses on the little-known but important friendship between two canonical American writers. The story of this fifty-year friend

This portrays an extraordinary literary friendship, unique in American letters for its longevity, and it chronicles the lives and events that helped shape moder

Kenneth Burke was an influential thinker, literary critic, and rhetorician in the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries. This volume, edited by an infl

From the Preface: The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of th