Research Catalog

Title

The essential Wayne Booth / edited and with an introduction by Walter Jost.

Author

Booth, Wayne C.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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• Contributor biographical information
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Additional Authors

Jost, Walter, 1951-

Description

vi, 375 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Literature > History and criticism
• Rhetoric
• Criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-357) and index.

Contents

Macbeth as tragic hero -- Control of distance in Jane Austen's Emma -- The rhetorical stance -- The revival of rhetoric -- Metaphor as rhetoric: the problem of evaluation (with ten literal "theses") -- The empire of irony -- Richard McKeon's pluralism: the path between dogmatism and relativism -- How Bakhtin woke me up -- "The way I loved George Eliot": friendship with books as a neglected critical metaphor -- On relocating ethical criticism -- The ethics of forms: taking flight with The wings of the dove -- The ethics of teaching literature -- "Of the standard of moral taste": literary criticism as moral inquiry -- Rhetoric, science, religion -- The idea of a university--as seen by a rhetorician -- For the love of it: spending, wasting, and redeeming time -- Coda: mere rhetoric, rhetorology, and the search for a common learning.

Call Number

JFE 07-1567

ISBN

• 0226065928 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780226065922 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005032417
• 9780226065922

OCLC

62282214

Author

Booth, Wayne C.

Title

The essential Wayne Booth / edited and with an introduction by Walter Jost.

Imprint

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-357) and index.

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Table of contents only

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Jost, Walter, 1951-

Other Standard Identifier

9780226065922

Research Call Number

JFE 07-1567