Chronology: Burke & American History |
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Burke | American & European History |
1897 Kenneth Duva Burke born 05 May in Pittsburgh, PA
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1900 1902 1905 1909 1913-28 - M. Proust, À la recherche du temps purdu 03 Aug 1914 Germany declares war on France |
1916 Attends Ohio State University for a semester, studies with Ludwig Lewisohn, who introduces KB to works of T. Mann. Also begins to read Freud. |
1916 F. de Saussure's lectures published as Course de linguistique générale J. Joyce, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man 07 Nov 1917 Lenin and Bolsheviks accede to power |
1918 |
11 Nov 1918 Germany signs armistice |
1920 Mrs. Maecenas, first fiction published in The Dial |
1920 S. Lewis, Main Street |
1921 |
1921 S. Freud, Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse
(Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego) |
1922 First Pastoral in Secession Portrait of an Arrived Criticin The Dial The Correspondence of Flaubert in The Dial |
1922 T. S. Eliots The Waste Land published in The Dial (first publication) J. Joyce, Ulysses |
1923 |
1923 M. Mauss, Essai sur le don (The Gift) |
1924 White Oxen published (Boni) Notes on Walter Pater in 1924 Trans. of T. Manns Death in Venice in The Dial |
1924 A. Breton, "First Manifesto of Surrealism"
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1925 |
1925 J. Dewey, Experience and Nature |
1926 |
1926 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby E. Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises |
1927 |
1927 M. Heidegger, Sein und Zeit (Being and
Time) |
1928 First Declamation in The Dial |
1928 Final issue of La revolution surréaliste, including Second manifeste du surréalisme (Breton) |
1929 |
1929 29 Oct - Stock Market crash triggers world-wide depression |
1930 The Allies of Humanism Abroad Thomas Mann and André Gide |
1930 |
1931 Counter-Statement published (Harcourt, Brace & Co.) |
1931 K. Jaspers, Die geistige Siuation der Zeit |
1932 Towards a Better Life published (Harcourt, Brace & Co.) |
1932 08 Nov - Roosevelt defeats Hoover for the Presidency |
1933 Marries Elizabeth Batterham The Nature of Art under Capitalism, The Nation War, Response, and Contradiction, The Symposium Poets All review of C. K. Ogden, Benthams Theory of Fiction |
1933
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1934 On Interpretation The Plowshare (Part I of Permanence and Change |
1934 E. Husserl, Cartesian Meditations |
1935 26 Apr - Revolutionary Symbolism in America delivered at the American Writers Congress Permanence and Change published (New Republic Press) Antony in Behalf of the Play (Southern Review) |
1935 W. Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! |
1936 |
1936 Jul 16 - Franco's attack in Spanish Moracco marks beginning of Spanish Civil War |
1937 Attitudes toward History (New Republic Press) Trans. of T. Mann's Humanism and Europe, New Republic |
1937 |
1938 Literature as Equipment for Living, Direction The Virtues and Limitations of Debunking, Southern Review Semantic and Poetic Meaning, Southern Review |
1938 W. Faulkner, Light in August |
1939 |
1939 J. Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath |
1940 Surrealism |
1940 |
1941 Philosophy of Literary Form (Louisiana St Univ Press) Four Master Tropes (Kenyon Review) |
1941 07 Dec - Pearl Harbor |
1942 |
1942 |
1943 Accepts part-time position at Bennington College, where he would teach until 1961 |
1943 |
1944 |
1944 |
1945 A Grammar of Motives (Prentice-Hall) |
1945 |
1946 |
1946 |