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Washita County by Wayne Boothe 9781531632076
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $35.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531632076Author Wayne BootheFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library... -
Washita County by Wayne Boothe 9780738551517
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738551517Author Wayne BootheFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher... -
The Essential Wayne Booth by Wayne C. Booth 9780226065922
Booksplease Price: $96.45Wayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time, most notably the 1961 classic "The Rhetoric of Fiction", a book that transformed literary criticism and became the... -
The Astounding Misadventures of Rory Collins by Dwayne Booth 9780999412756
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999412756Author Dwayne BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Humoroutcasts PressPublisher... -
Getting Started in Freelance Writing by Dwayne Booth 9780998089966
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998089966Author Dwayne BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Corner Office BooksPublisher... -
Bernadette Peters Hates Me: True Tales From A Delusional Man by Dwayne Booth 9780692659953
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692659953Author Dwayne BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Humoroutcasts PressPublisher... -
How to Write and Share Humor: Techniques to Tickle Funny Bones and Win Fans by Dwayne Booth 9780692722824
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692722824Author Dwayne BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Humoroutcasts PressPublisher... -
Just Another Day At Your Local Public Library: An Insider's Tales Of Library Life by Dwayne Booth 9780998089959
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998089959Author Dwayne BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Humoroutcasts PressPublisher... -
Rats, Mice, And Other Things You Can't Take to The Bank: An Inspirational Collection of Essays from Humorous to Simply Human by Dwayne Booth 9780999412732
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999412732Author Dwayne BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Humoroutcasts PressPublisher... -
The Knowledge Most Worth Having by Wayne C. Booth
Booksplease Price: $52.03The Knowledge Most Worth Having represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago-faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still... -
Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored by Arabella Lyon
Booksplease Price: $72.91The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation challenges existing literary and rhetorical... -
How Should We Talk About Religion?: Perspectives, Contexts, Particularities by 9780268044077
Booksplease Price: $62.67In this wide-ranging and timely volume, fourteen scholars address the important question, How should we talk about religion, whether our own or the religion of others? They confront such fundamental... -
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco 9780674302464
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $29.89"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." -The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond of... -
The Rhetoric of RHETORIC: The Quest for Effective Communication Wayne C. Booth 9781405112376
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $49.18In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal... -
Now Don't Try to Reason with Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age by Wayne C. Booth
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $77.61In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned "middle ground" for reason-a rhetoric that can unite truths of the heart with truths of the head and allow us all to... -
Literature as Exploration by Louise M Rosenblatt 9780873525688
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $81.10Louise Rosenblatt's Literature as Exploration has influenced literary theorists and teachers of literature at all levels. This attractive trade paperback edition features a new foreword by Wayne... -
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $72.01Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and... -
Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources by Michelle Ballif 9780313303913
Booksplease Price: $129.23Rhetoric and rhetorical theory have been gaining in prominence throughout the 20th century. As leaders in all fields give careful attention to issues in communication, rhetoric becomes increasingly... -
The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-88 by Wayne C. Booth
Booksplease Price: $48.36This critically acclaimed collection is both a passionate celebration of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent... -
Literature as Exploration by Louise M. Rosenblatt 9780873525671
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $165.46Louise Rosenblatt's Literature as Exploration has influenced literary theorists and teachers of literature at all levels. This attractive trade paperback edition features a new foreword by Wayne... -
For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals Wayne C. Booth 9780226065861
Booksplease Price: $42.88Why would anyone spend free hours and weekends on a demanding practice that promises no payoff in money, fame, or power? Is it true that anything worth doing is worth doing only if you can get credit... -
The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and Aging by Wayne C. Booth
Booksplease Price: $53.86Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works by some of our greatest writers on the art of growing older. In this widely praised anthology he shows that the very making of art is in... -
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader by Stephen K. George 9780742532342
Booksplease Price: $110.49Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the... -
Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory by Ellen Rooney
Booksplease Price: $29.07Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies... -
Thackeray s Skeptical Narrative and the Perilous Trade of Authorship by Judith L. Fisher
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth- and... -
Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present by Dorothy J. Hale 9780804733564
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70In recent decades, literary critics have praised novel theory for abandoning its formalist roots and defining the novel as a vehicle of social discourse. The old school of novel theory has long been... -
Voices in the Wilderness: Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric by Patricia Roberts-Miller 9780817357801
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in Voices in the Wilderness, which traces America's dominant form of... -
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader by David Lodge 9780582484221
Booksplease Price: $114.74Twentieth Century Literature is a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. It is a companion volume to Modern... -
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction by Michael J. Hoffman 9780822335214
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.47What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several... -
Love and Good Reasons: Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature by Fritz Oehlschlaeger 9780822330646
Booksplease Price: $66.90Insisting on the vital, productive relationship between ethics and the study of literature, Love and Good Reasons demonstrates ways of reading novels and stories from a Christian perspective. Fritz... -
Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology by Alice Bell
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.03The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of... -
Words about Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books by Perry Nodelman 9780820355849
RRP: $224.15Booksplease Price: $189.09A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books-books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number... -
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook by Mark A. Wollaeger 9780195150766
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $64.35James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to a landmark in modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first-time readers,... -
Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, and Ethics by Jane Stadler 9781441163028
Booksplease Price: $85.33The most powerful films have an afterlife. Their sensory appeal and their capacity to elicit involvement in story, character and conflict reaches beyond the screen to subtly reframe the way... -
Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters by Greta Matzner-Gore 9780810141971
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.32Three questions of novelistic form preoccupied Fyodor Dostoevsky throughout his career: how to build suspense, how to end a narrative effectively, and how to distribute attention among major and... -
The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations by Carol A. Newsom 9780195396287
RRP: $71.16Booksplease Price: $48.03From the simple and beautiful language of the prose tale, to the verbal fireworks of the dialogue between Job and his friends, to the haunting beauty of the poem on wisdom and the sublime poetics of... -
The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy by Terryl L. Givens 9780199933808
RRP: $51.66Booksplease Price: $33.52In 1997, Terryl Givens's The Viper on the Hearth was praised as a new classic in Mormon studies. In the wake of Mormon-inspired and -created artistic, literary, and political activity - today's... -
Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel by Gary Saul Morson 9781618111616
RRP: $172.58Booksplease Price: $125.85Gary Saul Morson's ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on "prosaics" (his coinage) argues that life's defining events... -
Shaped by Stories: The Ethical Power of Narratives by Marshall Gregory
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $36.62In his latest book, Marshall Gregory begins with the premise that our lives are saturated with stories, ranging from magazines, books, films, television, and blogs to the words spoken by politicians,...