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Language: en
Pages: 253
Pages: 253
Type: BOOK - Published: 1974-10-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
When 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
Language: en
Pages: 398
Pages: 398
Type: BOOK - Published: 1970 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned “middle ground” for reason—a rhetoric that can unite truths of the hear
Language: en
Pages: 573
Pages: 573
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
The 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 f
Language: en
Pages: 571
Pages: 571
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
"Bibliography of ethical criticism": p. 505-534. Presents arguments for the relocation of ethics to the center of literature, examining periods, genres, and par
Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-05 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press
The themes of the essays in Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent all coalesce around the general question: "When, if ever, is assent justified?" The