Introduction: Landmark essays on Kenneth Burke / Barry Brummett - - Essays Part one: Overviews and surveys
Kenneth Burke and the "New Rhetoric" / Marie Hochmuth Nichols
Kenneth Burke and the criticism of symbolic action / Stanley Edgar Hyman
Everything, preferably all at once / Howard Nemerov
Pivotal terms in the early works of Kenneth Burke / Jane Blankenship, Edward Murphy, and Marie Rosenwasser
Kenneth Burke and the method of dramatism / Michael Overington
Part two: A focus on critical and philosophical issues
Kenneth Burke's prolegomena to the study of the rhetoric of form / Richard B. Gregg
Epistemology and ontology as dialectical modes in the writings of Kenneth Burke / James W. Chesebro
Part three: Politics and intervention
Towards a better life through symbolic action / William H. Rueckert
"Introduction" to symbols in society / Hugh Dalziel Duncan
A dramatistic theory of the rhetoric of movements / Leland Griffin
Reading history with Kenneth Burke / Frank Lentricchia
Kenneth Burke's comedy: The multiplication of perspectives / Wayne C. Booth
Post-Burke: Transcending the substance of dramatism / Celeste Condit.