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KB Journal seeks reviews of recent books focused on Burke and his ideas. Reviews should run a maximum of 2,000 words and include the book title in MLA format at the beginning of the review. The journal also seeks review essays discussing at least three books and/or articles that share a common Burke-related focus. Review essays should discuss how these works forward, enhance, or challenge Burke studies. Review essays should run a maximum of 3,000 words and should include the titles in MLA format at the beginning of the review.

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  • “From the Plaint to the Comic: Kenneth Burke’s Towards a Better Life,” by Krista K. Betts Van Dyck
  • "Kenneth Burke’s ‘Attitude’ at the Crossroads of Rhetorical and Cultural Studies," by Sarah Mahan-Hays & Roger C. Aden
  • "The Domain of Public Consciousness," by Mary E. Stuckey
  • "The Politics of Negotiating Public Tragedy," by Brian L. Ott & Eric Aoki
  • Book Review: Music of the Spheres by Michael Burke
  • Burke's New Boiks: Get 'em While They're Hot and Before They're Not . . .
  • Democracy and America’s War on Terror, by Robert L. Ivie
  • Embarking on Burke: Profiles of New Scholars
  • Kenneth Burke on Myth: An Introduction, by Laurence Coupe
  • Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare, by Scott L. Newstok
  • Recently Released: Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke
  • Redemptive Transcendence and Political Piety in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream,” by David A. Bobbitt
  • Reorienting Rhetoric: The Dialectic of List and Story, by John D. O'Banion
  • Rhetoric: A User's Guide, by John D. Ramage
  • Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism, by Walter Jost
  • Rhetorical Landscapes in America, by Gregory Clark
  • Taking Burke Public: Perspectives on Burke's Connection Between Language and Public Action (Review Essay by Ryan Weber)
  • “A Theory of Vernacular Rhetoric: The Case of the ‘Sinner’s Prayer’ Online,” by Robert Glenn Howard
  • “Civility as Rhetorical Enactment: The John Ashcroft ‘Debates’ and Burke’s Theory of Form,” by Christopher R. Darr
  • “Dell Hymes, Kenneth Burke’s ‘Identification,’ and the Birth of Sociolinguistics,” by Jay Jordan
  • “Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric,” by Patricia Roberts-Miller
  • “Formal Propriety as Rhetorical Norm,” by Beth Innocenti Manolescu
  • “From ER to Ecocomposition and Ecopoetics: Finding a Place for Professional Communication," by Jimmie Killingsworth
  • “I Shall, with the Greatest of Ease and Friendliness, Scour You from the Earth”: Yvor Winters on Kenneth Burke
  • “Plymouth Rock Landed on Us: Malcolm X’s Whiteness Theory as a Basis for Alternative Literacy,” by Keith D. Miller
  • “Questioning the Motives of Habituated Action: Burke and Bourdieu on Practice," by Dana Anderson
  • “Rhetoric, Cybernetics, and the Work of the Body in Burke’s Body of Work," by Jeff Pruchnic
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