Wayne C. Booth (1921–2005)
Autore di The Craft of Research
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A graduate student at the University of Chicago in the late 1940s, when the English Department was dominated by members of the Chicago School of criticism, Wayne Booth returned to his alma mater in the early 1960s and became an exponent of its critical methodology. The Chicago Critics were mostra altro influenced by the formalistic, rhetorical analysis of the Poetics of Aristotle, which was concerned with the principles of literary construction and literary esthetics. Unlike the New Critics, who shared their interest in formalist analysis of texts, the Chicago Critics emphasized the importance of knowledge about the author and his or her historical context. They considered the New Criticism, which had developed at about the same time, too restrictive in its bracketing of that information as external to the text and therefore incidental to understanding and evaluating it. The first generation of Chicago School critics, who were Booth's teachers, did not have much impact beyond the university itself. Booth, however, continued to advocate pluralism. Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism Critical Understanding: (1979) helped revitalize and popularize Chicago School principles. Booth is associated with two other movements in contemporary literary theory: reader-response criticism and narratology. The former includes a heterogeneous group of reader-oriented rather than text-oriented methodologies. The latter is usually seen as a type of structuralist or proto-structuralist literary study, since it focuses on the function and the grammar, or structure, of narrative. Linked with both is Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction (1962), which concentrates on the analysis of point of view and how writers manipulate it so that readers accept the values of the implied author of a text's narration. Booth's work has increasingly emphasized reading, ethics, and the rhetoric of persuasion-a concern already implicit in this early book. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Wayne C. Booth
The Jordan Lectures, 1998-1999 1 copia
Ironinin Retorigi 1 copia
Opere correlate
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (1955) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 8,171 copie
A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) (2004) — Collaboratore — 37 copie
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) (2003) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
A Mirror for Modern Scholars: Essays in Methods of Research In Literature (1966) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Pluralism in Theory and Practice: Richard McKeon and American Philosophy (The Vanderbilt Library of American… (2000) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
How Should We Talk about Religion?: Perspectives, Contexts, Particularities (ND Erasmus Institute Books) (2006) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 13, Number 4 (Winter 1980) (1980) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 33, Number 1 (Spring 2000) (2000) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Booth, Wayne C.
- Nome legale
- Booth, Wayne Clayson
- Data di nascita
- 1921-02-22
- Data di morte
- 2005-10-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- American Fork, Utah, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- American Fork, Utah, USA
Richmond, Indiana, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA - Istruzione
- University of Chicago (PhD|English|1950)
University of Chicago (AM|1947)
Brigham Young University (AB|1944) - Attività lavorative
- literary critic
rhetorician
emeritus professor - Relazioni
- Booth, Phyllis (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- University of Chicago
Modern Language Association
American Association of University Professors
U.S. Army
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Haverford College (mostra tutto 7)
Earlham College - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award (2006)
George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English, University of Chicago
Christian Gauss Prize (1962)
David H. Russell Prize (1966)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1972)
American Philosophical Society (1992)
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A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books) di Wayne C. Booth
Turns out that rain on your wedding day is not ironic, but saying "like rain on your wedding day" definitely is.
Every bit the classic it has long and widely been held to be.
It helps to have read Emma, Tristram Shandy, Samuel Beckett's Company, some Dafoe, some Swift, and whole lot of Henry James, to really piece this work together. Booth is primarily concerned with the relationship between the narrator, the implied author, and the reader. I think he is one of the first to use the term "unreliable narrator" to describe the critical distance required when reading a first person narrative.
I enjoyed his analysis of Austen's Emma the most, as I recently reread it and appreciated his commentary on Austen's use of narrative voice to gain the both the reader's sympathy and approbation for her heroine.
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I enjoyed his analysis of Austen's Emma the most, as I recently reread it and appreciated his commentary on Austen's use of narrative voice to gain the both the reader's sympathy and approbation for her heroine.
… (altro)
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
- 79
- Lingue
- 7
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