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Wayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism, most notably the 1961 classic The Rhetoric of Fiction. This work illuminates the scope of Booth's rhetorical inquiry: the entire range of resources that human beings share for producing effects on one another.

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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"

The Essential Wayne Booth Emersion Emergent

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 7/15/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226065922, 978-0226065922
      ISBN10: 0226065928
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      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Wayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism, most notably the 1961 classic The Rhetoric of Fiction. This work illuminates the scope of Booth's rhetorical inquiry: the entire range of resources that human beings share for producing effects on one another.

      Trade Review
      "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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