Wayne Booth

Wayne Booth
Nascimento22 de fevereiro de 1921
American Fork
Morte10 de outubro de 2005 (84 anos)
Chicago
SepultamentoAlpine City Cemetery
CidadaniaEstados Unidos
Alma mater
Ocupaçãocrítico literário, escritor, professor universitário, jornalista
Distinções
Empregador(a)Universidade de Chicago
ReligiãoA Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias
Página oficial
http://www.phillwebb.net/history/Twentieth/Pragmatism/Booth/Booth.htm

Wayne Clayson Booth (22 de fevereiro de 1921, American Fork, Utah10 de outubro de 2005) foi um crítico literário estadunidense e professor emérito de Língua Inglesa e Literatura na Universidade de Chicago.

Obras

  • Rhetoric of Fiction (1961)
  • Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay (c. 1963), panfleto
  • Now Don't Try to Reason with Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age (1970)
  • Autobiography of Relva Booth Ross (1971)
  • Booth Family History (1971)
  • A Rhetoric of Irony (1974)
  • Knowledge Most Worth Having (1974), editor
  • Modern Dogma & the Rhetoric of Assent (1974), Ward-Phillips Lectures em Língua Inglesa e Literatura
  • Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism (1979)
  • The Harper and Row Rhetoric: Writing As Thinking, Thinking As Writing (1987), com Marshall W. Gregory
  • The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (1988)
  • The Harper & Row Reader: Liberal Education Through Reading & Writing (1988), com Marshall W. Gregory
  • The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988 (1988)
  • The Art of Deliberalizing: A Handbook for True Professionals (1990)
  • The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and Aging (1992), editor
  • The Craft of Research (1995, 2003) com Gregory G. Colomb e Joseph M. Williams
  • Literature as Exploration (1996) com Louise M. Rosenblatt
  • For the Love of It: Amateuring & Its Rivals (1999)
  • Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication (2004), Manifesto Blackwell
  • My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony (2006)

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