Burke (1897-1993) soon made a mark with his poetry, fiction, and essays. In 1924, he published the first English translation of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, a version W. H. Auden later called ...

In 1939, the cultural critic Kenneth Burke issued similar warnings. In “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battle,” published in the Southern Review, ...

Kenneth Burke. To meet a need which had been felt for some time both in the United States and abroad, the pamphlet series, the University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, was established in ...

Thompson teaches courses in rhetoric (The Rhetoric of Fiction, Rhetoric of Video Games) and media (Media Adaptation), as well as literature and composition. His research is focused on the game studies ...

Burke hoped democracy-loving Americans, then and now, would “know, with greater accuracy, exactly what to guard against, if we are to forestall the concocting of similar medicine in America.” ...