The Essential Wayne Booth

By: Wayne C. Booth, Walter Jost (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Wayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time, most notably the 1961 classic "The Rhetoric of Fiction," a book that transformed literary criticism and became the standard reference point for advanced discussions of how fiction works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers re-create texts.
While Booth's work was formative to the study of literature, his essential writings have never 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" illuminates the scope of Booth's rhetorical inquiry: the entire range of resources that human beings share for producing effects on one another. Whether about metaphors for our friendship with books or the two cultures of science and religion, the texts collected here always return to the techniques and ethics of our ways of communicating with each other--that is, to rhetoric.
"The Essential Wayne Booth" is a capstone to Booth's long career and an eloquent reminder of the ways in which criticism can make us alive to the arts of writing, talking, and listening.

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"Wayne C. Booth [was] one of the preeminent literary critics of the second half of the twentieth century, whose life-long study of the art of rhetoric illuminated the means by which authors seduce, cajole, and more than occasionally lie to their readers in the service of narrative.... To Professor Booth, literature was not so much words on paper as it was a complex ethical act. He saw the novel as a kind of compact between author and reader: intimate and rewarding, but rarely easy. At the crux of this compact lay rhetoric, the art of verbal persuasion." - Margalit Fox, New York Times"

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Language & Linguistics Linguistics Semantics & Discourse Analysis Anthologies (non-poetry)Reference, Dictionaries & Guides Education

Introduction	p. 1
Macbeth as Tragic Hero	p. 22
Control of Distance in Jane Austen's Emma	p. 34
The Rhetorical Stance	p. 54
The Revival of Rhetoric	p. 64
Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation (with Ten Literal "Theses")	p. 74
The Empire of Irony	p. 100
Richard McKeon's Pluralism: The Path between Dogmatism and Relativism	p. 120
How Bakhtin Woke Me Up	p. 140
"The Way I Loved George Eliot": Friendship with Books as a Neglected Critical Metaphor	p. 154
On Relocating Ethical Criticism	p. 180
The Ethics of Forms: Taking Flight with The Wings of the Dove	p. 194
The Ethics of Teaching Literature	p. 220
"Of the Standard of Moral Taste": Literary Criticism as Moral Inquiry	p. 238
Rhetoric, Science, Religion	p. 264
The Idea of a University-as Seen by a Rhetorician	p. 280
For the Love of It: Spending, Wasting, and Redeeming Time	p. 302
Coda: Mere Rhetoric, Rhetorology, and the Search for a Common Learning	p. 314
Notes	p. 335
Index	p. 359
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