Background
Rueckert, William Howe was born on November 4, 1926 in Cleveland. Son of Frederic and Elizabeth (Howe) Rueckert.
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(Encounters with Kenneth Burke) Author: William H. Rueckert published on (April, 1994)
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Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations, Second edition
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Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner
(Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in...)
Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner is the culmination of William H. Rueckert's lifetime of study of this great American novelist. Rueckert tracks Faulkner's development as a novelist through eighteen novels-ranging from Flags in the Dust to The Reivers-to show the turn in Faulkner from destructive to generative being, from tragedy to comedy, from pollution to purification and redemption. At the heart of Faulkner from Within is Rueckert's sustained treatment of Go Down, Moses, a turning point in Faulkner's career away from the destructive selves of the earlier novels and-as first manifest in Ike McCaslin-toward the generative selves of his later work. Faulkner from Within is a wide-ranging, beautifully written appreciation and analysis of the imaginative life of a great American author and his complex work. William H. Rueckert has authored or edited numerous groundbreaking books and articles. They include the landmark study, Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations (1963, 1982), Critical Responses to Kenneth Burke, 1924-1966 (1969), and Encounters with Kenneth Burke (1994). He is the editor of Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959-1987 (2003, Parlor Press) and Burke's Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955 (2004, Parlor Press). With Angelo Bonadonna, he is the editor of Burke's On Human Nature, A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984. He is also the author of Glenway Wescott (1965). His essays include the often-cited "Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism."
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Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations
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Encounters with Kenneth Burke
(William H. Rueckert's landmark 1963 study, "Kenneth Burke...)
William H. Rueckert's landmark 1963 study, "Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations", is often credited with bringing the field of Burke studies into existence. Here, Rueckert has gathered his "encounters" with Burke over the past thirty years - brief talks, position papers, rethinking and reformation of earlier ideas, and detailed analyses of individual texts - into one volume that offers readers the best of Burkean criticism.
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Glenway Wescott: 87 : Twayne's United States Authors Series
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William Howe Rueckert
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William Howe Rueckert, American literature educator, writer. Fellow, National Humanities Institute University Chicago, 1977-1978. Active Nature Conservancy, Thousand Islands Land Trust, Save the River, Clayton, New York; volunteer Antique Boat Museum; Member of Modern Language Association (life), Association for Study of Literature and Environmental, Kenneth Burke Society (life; 1st president 1990).
Education
Bachelor, Williams College, 1950. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1956.
Career
Instructor English Russell Sage College, Troy, New York, 1954—1956, Oberlin (Ohio) College, 1956—1957. From instructor to associate professor University Illinois, Urbana, 1957—1965. From associate professor to professor English University Rochester, 1965—1974.
Professor, chairman English department State University of New York, Geneseo, 1974—1988, emeritus professor English, from 1988. Visiting professor University Washington, Seattle, 1971, University Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1976. With United States Navy, 1945-1946, Japan.
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Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner
(Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in...)
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Encounters with Kenneth Burke
(William H. Rueckert's landmark 1963 study, "Kenneth Burke...)
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Glenway Wescott: 87 : Twayne's United States Authors Series
(a book)
- Faulkner from Within Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner
- (Encounters with Kenneth Burke) Author: William H. Rueckert published on (April, 1994)
- Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations, Second edition
- Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations
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Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner
Membership
Active Nature Conservancy, Thousand Islands Land Trust, Save the River, Clayton, New York. Volunteer Antique Boat Museum. Member of Modern Language Association (life), Association for Study of Literature and Environmental, Kenneth Burke Society (life.
1st president 1990).
Interests
Connections
Married Betty Lynn Ehlers, January 30, 1954 (divorced August 1980). Children: Theron K., Quentin H., Jordan F.B., Morgan P. Married Barbara Lissner Fields, August 5, 1980.
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Political Party
Democrat
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1950
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1956
Career
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1954 - 1956
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1956 - 1957
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1957 - 1965
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1965 - 1974
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1974 - 1988
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1974 - 1988