Critical Understanding: The Powers And Limits Of Pluralism

Booth, Wayne C

ISBN 10: 0226065545 / ISBN 13: 9780226065540

Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979

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408 Pp. First Printing Indicated. Black Cloth. As New But No Dj.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critical Understanding: The Powers And Limits Of Pluralism
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226065545
• ISBN 13: 9780226065540
• Binding: Black Cloth
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Education
  • Philosophy and Thoughtfulness
  • Literature: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

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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 pluralismâ a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any one critic's net. He relates three noted pluralistsâ Ronald Crane, Kenneth Burke, and M. H. Abramsâ 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 Forthe Love of It, all published by the University of Chicago Press.