Encounters with Kenneth Burke

Rueckert has gathered his "encounters" with Burke over the past thirty years in one volume that offers readers the best of Burkean criticism

Brings together the author's "encounters" with Kenneth Burke - brief talks, position papers, rethinking and reformation of earlier ideas, and analyses of individual texts. William H. Rueckert's landmark
  1963 study, Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations, is often
  credited with bringing the field of Burke studies into existence. Here, Rueckert
  has gathered his "encounters" with Burke over the past thirty years--brieft
  talks, position papers, rethinking and reformation of earlier ideas, and detailed
  analyses of individual texts--into one volume that offers readers the best of
  Burkean criticism.