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The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burke. By Ross Wolin. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2001; pp. xiii + 256. $34.95.

A later inquirer, for whom materialist associationism and transcendental idealism are usually systems to be thought of rather than thought with, is not likely to learn so much through or about either. (Richards, 1960, p. 17)

The art of rhetoric can only benefit from a study of the imagination, and Kenneth Burke's writings are an ideal source from which to pursue that project. Indeed, Burke's corpus evidences an ongoing struggle to ...