Wayne C. Booth

The Rhetoric of RHETORIC (eBook, PDF)

The Quest for Effective Communication

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Produktbeschreibung

In 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 book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961).
• Explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, in politics, and in the media.
• Investigates the possibility of reducing harmful conflict by practising a rhetoric that depends on deep listening by both sides.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470765821
• Artikelnr.: 38198253

Autorenporträt

Wayne C. Booth is Distinguished Service Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Chicago. His previous publications include The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), A Rhetoric of Irony (1974), Critical Understanding (1979), The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (1988), The Craft of Research (with Williams and Colomb, 1994), and For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals (1999). Like most of his publications, his teaching has concentrated on diverse ways of improving human communication.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I Rhetoric's Status: Up, Down, and - Up?.
1 How Many "Rhetorics"?.
2 A Condensed History of Rhetorical Studies.
3 Judging Rhetoric.
4 Some Major Rescuers.
Part II The Need for Rhetorical Studies Today.
5 The Fate of Rhetoric in Education.
6 The Threats of Political Rhetrickery.
7 Media Rhetrickery.
Part III Reducing Rhetorical Warfare.
8 Can Rhetorology Yield More Than a Mere Truce, in Any of Our "Wars"?.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Index of Names and Titles.
Index of Subjects

Rezensionen

"In The Rhetoric of RHETORIC Wayne C. Booth passionately and persuasively demonstrates the centrality of rhetoric to human inquiry and human interaction. Taking Booth's manifesto seriously -- responding to it in the spirit of what he calls 'listening rhetoric' -- can improve the quality of our thought, our interactions, and, thus, our lives." James Phelan, Ohio State University