Wayne C. Booth
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Wayne C. Booth's Degrees
- PhD English University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wayne Clayson Booth was an American literary critic and rhetorician. He was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature and the College at the University of Chicago. His work followed largely from the Chicago school of literary criticism.
Wayne C. Booth's Published Works
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Published Works
- The rhetoric of fiction (2000) (2097)
- A Rhetoric of Irony (1975) (584)
- The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (1989) (535)
- Modern dogma and the rhetoric of assent (1974) (209)
- A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (2010) (175)
- The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication (2004) (174)
- Medium Theory (2009) (111)
- Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation (1978) (111)
- The Craft of Research, Third Edition (2008) (111)
- Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism (1983) (101)
- The Rhetorical Stance (1963) (94)
- The Craft of Research, 2nd edition (2003) (79)
- Freedom of Interpretation: Bakhtin and the Challenge of Feminist Criticism (1982) (61)
- The Self-Conscious Narrator in Comic Fiction Before Tristram Shandy (1952) (59)
- Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother? (2007) (57)
- Distance and Point-of-View: An Essay in Classification (1961) (55)
- Why Banning Ethical Criticism is a Serious Mistake (1998) (40)
- For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals (1999) (38)
- The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988 (1990) (35)
- Bolker, Joan. Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1998. (2008) (33)
- Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple (1998) (27)
- The Revival of Rhetoric (1965) (22)
- Kenneth Burke's Way of Knowing (1974) (21)
- THE ETHICS OF TEACHING LITERATURE (1998) (20)
- Now Don't Try to Reason with Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age (1970) (19)
- Interview: Wolfgang Iser (1980) (18)
- Did Sterne Complete "Tristram Shandy?" (1951) (16)
- Symposium: The Limits and Alternatives to Skepticism-- A Dialogue. (2005) (13)
- "Preserving the Exemplar": Or, How Not to Dig Our Own Graves (1977) (12)
- My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony (2006) (12)
- Pluralism in the Classroom (1986) (9)
- M. H. Abrams: Historian as Critic, Critic as Pluralist (1976) (9)
- In Defense of Authors and Readers (1977) (9)
- Is There an "Implied" Author in Every Film? (2002) (8)
- Cultural Literacy and Liberal Learning: An Open Letter to E. D. Hirsch, Jr. (1988) (8)
- Beyond Knowledge and Inquiry to Love, Or: Who Mentors the Mentors?. (1994) (7)
- THE ETHICS OF MEDICINE, AS REVEALED IN LITERATURE (2004) (7)
- The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and Aging (1992) (6)
- "The Rhetoric of Fiction" and the Poetics of Fictions (1968) (6)
- Looking Backward, Looking Forward: MLA Members Speak (2000) (6)
- Point of View and the Control of Distance in Emma (1961) (5)
- CENSORSHIP AND THE VALUES OF FICTION. (1964) (5)
- The Meeting of Minds. (1972) (5)
- The Harper & Row Reader: Liberal Education Through Reading And Writing (1983) (5)
- Introducing Professor Mearsheimer to His Own University (1998) (5)
- The Knowledge Most Worth Having (2010) (5)
- "The Self-Portraiture of Genius": "The Citizen of the World" and Critical Method (1976) (5)
- Selected Writings of Richard McKeon, Volume Two: Culture, Education, and the Arts (2005) (4)
- The Harper & Row rhetoric: Writing as thinking, thinking as writing (1987) (4)
- Presidential Address Arts and Scandals 1981 (1983) (4)
- Data, Danda, and Disagreement@@@Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism@@@The Act of Interpretation: A Critique of Literary Reason@@@Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities (1983) (4)
- SYSTEMATIC WONDER: THE RHETORIC OF SECULAR RELIGIONS (1985) (3)
- Metaphors We Live By. George Lakoff , Mark Johnson (1983) (3)
- Story as Spiritual Quest (1996) (3)
- Literary Criticism and the Pursuit of Character (2001) (3)
- Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader (2005) (3)
- Imaginative Literature Is Indispensable (1956) (3)
- Three Functions of Reviewing at the Present Time (1978) (3)
- Ten Literal "Theses" (1978) (2)
- Reply to Richard Berrong (1985) (2)
- Catching the Overflow. (1984) (2)
- My Life with Rhetoric (2007) (2)
- Interpreting Ironies@@@A Rhetoric of Irony (1976) (2)
- High Romantic Argument: Essays for M.H. Abrams (1983) (2)
- Why Ethical Criticism Fell on Hard Times (1988) (2)
- Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (review) (2011) (2)
- Explanation and value in the arts: On relocating ethical criticism (1993) (1)
- An Arrogant Proposal: A New Use for the Dyshumanities. (1977) (1)
- The Ethics of Criticism: Does Literature Do Any Good? (1991) (1)
- Irony and Pity Once Again: "Thaïs" Revisited (1975) (1)
- My Many Selves (2006) (1)
- The Irony of Revisionism in Contemporary Criticism@@@Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism@@@After the New Criticism (1982) (0)
- A Reply to Mr. Kimball (1990) (0)
- Our best rhetorologist (1995) (0)
- The Writing of Organic Fiction: A Conversation (1976) (0)
- The Morley Boswell (1953) (0)
- A Symposium on Secret Spaces (2000) (0)
- Selections from Susan Dunham's "Cass Andor, or Nihilismism: The Last Anti-Novel" (1980) (0)
- Sheldon Sacks 1930-1979 (1979) (0)
- The overwrought urn : a potpourri of parodies of critics who triumphantly present the real meaning of authors from Jane Austen to J. D. Salinger (1969) (0)
- Teaching Literary Criticism, 1971 (1972) (0)
- Eternity Now! Wayne Booth as Musical Amateur (2000) (0)
- Review essay (2004) (0)
- MLA volume 96 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1981) (0)
- More Stevick@@@Robert Liddell on the Novel (1971) (0)
- For Wayne Booth at His Religious Memorial Service in Chicago (2006) (0)
- : Jane Austen's Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue . Howard S. Babb. (1963) (0)
- Brain Economics: Housekeeping Routines in the Brain (2009) (0)
- Criticism as the pursuit of character (1992) (0)
- What Every Novelist Needs to Know about Narrators (2012) (0)
- Book Review:Tristram Shandy's World: Sterne's Philosophical Rhetoric John Traugott (1955) (0)
- An Experiment in Fiction (review) (2010) (0)
- Correspondence: Points of View (1971) (0)
- Centre of all intellectual development (1971) (0)
- Interview: W. Iser (1980) (0)
- The Editor's Fence (2010) (0)
- : Middlemarch: Critical Approaches to the Novel . Barbara Hardy. (1969) (0)
- Dawn, Delight, Dew, Dove (1953) (0)
- Book Review:The Pale of Words: Reflections on the Humanities and Performance James Anderson Winn (2000) (0)
- Too Good to Miss (1981) (0)
- Reading for Life (2013) (0)
- A Report on the Failure of Idecom. (1981) (0)
- Volume Information (1974) (0)
- Do Reasons Matter in Criticism? Or: Many Meanings, Many Modes (1981) (0)
- ART AND THE CHURCH: OR "THE TRUTHS OF SMOOTHER" (1980) (0)
- Back Matter (1979) (0)
- The art of deliberalizing: A handbook for the true professional (1990) (0)
- MLA volume 96 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1981) (0)
- Some Words of Jane Austen. Stuart M. Tave. (1975) (0)
- The Common Aims that Divide Us; or, Is There a "Profession 1981"?. (1981) (0)
- Relativism, Pluralism, and Skepticism (Philosophical Perspective): Cultural Concerns (2001) (0)
- Back Matter (1976) (0)
- Back Matter (1974) (0)
- Featured Article: An Arrogant Proposal: A New Use for the Dyshumanities (1997) (0)
- Working Paper of the Commission on the Future of the Profession, May 1981 (1981) (0)
- Necessity for Compensation for Violation of a Restrictive Covenant in an Eminent Domain Proceeding (1939) (0)
- Pluralism and Its Powers; Metapluralism and Its Problems (1984) (0)
- Can Rhetorology Yield a Truce Between Science and Religion (2001) (0)
- Books Received (1990) (0)
- Why Is It Harder to Lead an English Department than to Be CEO of IBM (1994) (0)
- Notes and Exchanges (1977) (0)
- Book Review:Cervantes's Theory of the Novel E. C. Riley (1964) (0)
- To: All Who Care about the Future of Criticism (2004) (0)
- Remembering K-12 (1995) (0)
- Pluralism, Politics, and the Evaluation of Criticism (2007) (0)
- Book Review:The Unsentimental Journey of Laurence Sterne Ernest Nevin Dilworth (1949) (0)
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