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Article: Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare.(Book review)
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- Shakespeare Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare. Edited by Scott L. Newstok. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2007. Pp. 308. $65 (cloth), $32 (paper).
Scott L. Newstok's anthology of Kenneth Burke's writings on Shakespeare makes clear Burke's proleptic affinities with such succeeding movements as New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, and Reader-Response criticism (though emphatically not with Deconstructionism). Burke shared with the New Critics who dominated his working life a passion for close reading, but his readings were far more culturally informed and broadly conducted than theirs. As opposed to their view that literary works were self-contained artifacts beyond history ...