...Writing as Social Activism...

 Lentricchia, Frank.  Criticism and social change. — Chicago; London: Univ. of Chicago press, 1983. — VIII, 173 с.

Part Three

• Part is about social and political engagement of Kenneth Burke.  The previous sections was about his structuralist analysis (before structuralists) of history and history of literature.
• Start from double engagement of Burke as modernist aesthetic author and at the same time political engaged person, radical in late years being at the same time established academics and elite.  "Unlike most of his literary contemporaries (and ours) and their progenitors, Burke, though tempted, never bought separatism that isolated action from contemplation, willing from imagining, or poetry from power…  For what Burke knew was… the understanding that all intellectual activity (even the most theoretical sort that disdains politics) is itself, from the start, a kind of praxis… intellectual activity is first and foremost fro Burke an act" (87).
• Mostly on Counter-Statement and The Philosophy of Literary Form by Burke.