Linguistics & Semiotics, Literary Theory, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism

The Essential Wayne Booth

Name: The Essential Wayne Booth
Author: Wayne C. Booth
ISBN: 9781459605787

by Wayne C. Booth

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Overview

While Wayne Booth's work has been essential to the study of literature, his essential writings have never before been collected in a single volume - until now. Selected by Walter Jost in collaboration with Booth himself, the texts anthologized here present a picture of this indispensable critic's contributions to literary and rhetorical studies. The selections range from memorable readings of Macbeth, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Henry James to engagements with Booth's intellectual heroes, such as Richard McKeon and Mikhail Bakhtin. But rhetoric, Booth's abiding concern as a critic and thinker, provides the organizing principle of the anthology. The Essential Wayne Booth iluminates the scope of Booth's rhetorical inquiry: the entire range of resources that human beings share for producing effects on one another.

About the Author, Wayne C. Booth

Wayne C. Booth (1921–2005) was the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction, A Rhetoric of Irony, The Power and Limits of Pluralism, The Vocation of a Teacher, and For the Love of It, all published by the University of Chicago Press.Walter Jost is professor of English at the University of Virginia.

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Virginia Quarterly Review

[This collection] captures the broad range of Booth's subjects, from ethics, popular culture, and teaching, to Jane Austen, Shakespeare, and Mikhail Bakhtin. His invigorating and earnestly joyful style of writing matches hjis intense depth and breadth of reading. . . . His essays excite us because he so lucidly takes us along on his explorations.

— Ania Wieckowski