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ISBN: PB: 9780226065557

University of Chicago Press

September 1982

422 pp.

23x15 cm

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Critical Understanding

The Powers and Limits of Pluralism

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.

About the Author

Wayne C. Booth (1921-2005) was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. His many books include "The Rhetoric of Fiction" and "For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals", both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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