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Critical Understanding Wayne C. Booth 9780226065557
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $51.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226065557Author Wayne C. BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint -
Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth 9780226065588
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.64The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard... -
A Rhetoric of Irony by Wayne C. Booth 9780226065533
Booksplease Price: $44.09Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C... -
The Essential Wayne Booth by Wayne C. Booth 9780226065922
Booksplease Price: $62.32Wayne 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 Knowledge Most Worth Having by Wayne C. Booth
Booksplease Price: $34.42The 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... -
Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent Wayne C. Booth 9780226065724
Booksplease Price: $39.25When should I change my mind? What can I believe and what must I doubt? In this new "philosophy of good reasons" Wayne C. Booth exposes five dogmas of modernism that have too often inhibited efforts... -
The Craft of Research, Fifth Edition by Wayne C. Booth 9780226826677
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $19.03A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research. With more than a million copies sold since its first... -
The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $37.41In "The Company We Keep", Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. But the questions he asks are not confined to morality. Returning ethics... -
The Craft of Research, Fifth Edition by Wayne C. Booth 9780226833880
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $51.34A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research. With more than a million copies sold since its first... -
For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals Wayne C. Booth 9780226065861
Booksplease Price: $28.37Why 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 Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-88 by Wayne C. Booth
Booksplease Price: $31.99This 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... -
The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and Aging by Wayne C. Booth
Booksplease Price: $35.63Wayne 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... -
The Rhetoric of RHETORIC: The Quest for Effective Communication Wayne C. Booth 9781405112376
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $32.53In 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: $51.60Booksplease Price: $51.34In 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... -
The Knowing Most Worth Doing: Essays on Pluralism, Ethics and Religion by Wayne C. Booth 9780813929927
Booksplease Price: $74.10Gathers together an indispensable collection of Wayne Booth's thinking across a wide variety of fields and disciplines, from ethics to religion, and from rhetorical criticism to the philosophical... -
American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth by Professor Peter Rawlings
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $30.37The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work... -
American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth by Professor Peter Rawlings 9780415285445
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work... -
High Romantic Argument: Essays for M. H. Abrams by Lawrence Lipking 9780801476778
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $33.95M. H. Abrams's writings on the Romantics have had an incalculable influence on the literary history of his time. High Romantic Argument, treating as it does various aspects of Abrams's work, is in a... -
Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You by Lea Graham 9780982600023
RRP: $20.00Booksplease Price: $18.49Do we slight desire when we say crush? No, Lea Graham seems to answer, we praise it. Less like a reservoir of recollection than a synaptic centrifuge, Hough & Helix spins and strains the blood rush... -
Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture and Literary Theory by Todd F. Davis 9780813920566
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $36.96Divided into four descriptive sections-"Theory and the Ethics of Literary Text," "Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power," "Making Darkness Visible: The Ethical Implications of... -
The Implied Author: Concept and Controversy by Tom Kindt 9783110189483
RRP: $216.72Booksplease Price: $147.71This book addresses itself to the concept of the implied author, which has been the cause of controversy in cultural studies for some fifty years. The opening chapters examine the introduction of... -
A Companion to Narrative Theory James Phelan (Ohio State University, USA) 9781405184380
RRP: $51.54Booksplease Price: $48.92The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. Comprises 35 original essays written by... -
Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx by James Phelan 9780367893774
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $143.85Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx rests on the principles that storytelling is central to medical encounters between caregivers and patients and that narrative competence enhances medical... -
Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx by 9780367893200
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $46.80Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx rests on the principles that storytelling is central to medical encounters between caregivers and patients and that narrative competence enhances medical... -
Neural Data Science: A Primer with MATLAB (R) and Python (TM) by Erik Lee Nylen 9780128040430
Booksplease Price: $73.98A Primer with MATLAB (R) and Python (TM) present important information on the emergence of the use of Python, a more general purpose option to MATLAB, the preferred computation language for... -
Overcoming Matthew Arnold: Ethics in Culture and Criticism by James Walter Caufield 9781138111035
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97Opening the way for a reexamination of Matthew Arnold's unique contributions to ethical criticism, James Walter Caufield emphasizes the central role of philosophical pessimism in Arnold's master... -
How Should We Talk About Religion?: Perspectives, Contexts, Particularities by 9780268044077
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $35.90In 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... -
Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration by James Phelan
Booksplease Price: $29.94In Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, Ernest Hemingway's "Now I Lay Me," Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of...