Critical Understanding : The Powers And Limits Of Pluralism

Booth, Wayne

ISBN 10: 0226065545 / ISBN 13: 9780226065540

Published by University Of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1979

About this Item

Booth's discussion of the powers and limits of pluralistic literary criticism for the purposes of critical understanding that is worthwhile to readers. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critical Understanding : The Powers And Limits Of Pluralism
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226065545
• ISBN 13: 9780226065540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: Almost Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Literature Studies

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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 For the Love of It, all published by the University of Chicago Press.