Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Wayne C. Booth
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Criticism & Theory
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780226065557
- ISBN-10
- 0226065553
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
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ISBN: 0226065553
Author: Booth, Wayne C.
Condition: New
Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In Critical Understanding, Booth argues for a reasoned pluralism-a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any one critic's net. He relates three noted pluralists-Ronald Crane, Kenneth Burke, and M. H. Abrams-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.
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