{"product_id":"the-essential-wayne-booth-9780226065922","title":"The Essential Wayne Booth","description":"\u003cp\u003eWayne 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 standard reference point for advanced discussions of how fiction works  how authors make novels accessible  and how readers re-create texts.  While Booths work was formative to the study of literature  his essential writings have never been collected in a single volumeuntil now. Selected by Walter Jost in collaboration with Booth himself  the texts anthologized here present a picture of this indispensable critics contributions to literary and rhetorical studies. The selections range from memorable readings of Macbeth  Jane Austen  George Eliot  and Henry James to engagements with Booths intellectual heroes  such as Richard McKeon and Mikhail Bakhtin. But rhetoric  Booths abiding concern as a critic and thinker  provides the organizing principle of the anthology. The Essential Wayne Booth illuminates the scope of Booths rhetorical inquiry: the entire range of resources that human beings share for producing effects on one another. Whether about metaphors for our friendship with books or the two cultures of science and religion  the texts collected here always return to the techniques and ethics of our ways of communicating with each otherthat is  to rhetoric.  The Essential Wayne Booth is a capstone to Booths long career and an eloquent reminder of the ways in which criticism can make us alive to the arts of writing  talking  and listening.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647978987573,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226065928","price":34.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226065922.jpg?v=1781700645","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-essential-wayne-booth-9780226065922","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}