Critical Understanding: the Powers and Limits of Pluralism

Booth, Wayne C.

ISBN 10: 0226065553 / ISBN 13: 9780226065557

Editore: Univ. Chicago, 1979

Riguardo questo articolo

Ink markings and underlinings. Sunned cover. ; 408 pages.

Codice articolo 50924

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Critical Understanding: the Powers and Limits of Pluralism
• Editore: Univ. Chicago
• Data di pubblicazione: 1979
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226065553
• ISBN 13: 9780226065557
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Good

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto

Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In Critical Understanding, Booth argues for a reasoned pluralism a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any one critic's net. He relates three noted pluralists Ronald Crane, Kenneth Burke, and M. H. Abrams to various currently popular critical approaches. Throughout, Booth tests the abstractions of metacriticism against particular literary works, devoting a substantial portion of his discussion to works by W. H. Auden, Henry James, Oliver Goldsmith, and Anatole France.

Informazioni sull?autore

Wayne C. Booth (1921&;2005) was the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction, A Rhetoric of Irony, The Power and Limits of Pluralism, The Vocation of a Teacher, and Forthe Love of It, all published by the University of Chicago Press.