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1	A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers more books like this by Kate L Turabian, Wayne C Booth (Revised by), Gregory G Colomb (Revised by) add to wishlist Dewey, Bellow, Strauss, Friedman - the University of Chicago has been the home of some of the most important thinkers of the modern age. But perhaps no name has been spoken with more respect than Turabian. The dissertation secretary at Chicago for decades, Kate L. Turabian literally wrote the book on the successful completion and submission of the ... see all copies from $10.19! new only from $13.00! \| SVS
2	The Craft of Research more books like this by Wayne C Booth, Gregory G Colomb, Joseph M Williams add to wishlist This is a practical, comprehensive guide to planning, conducting, and reporting research of any kind for students at all levels, in any field. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Rhetoric of Fiction more books like this by Wayne C. Booth add to wishlist In this classic of literary criticism, first published in 1961, Wayne C. Booth cites many examples drawn from his wide reading of English, Continental, and American fiction as he discusses kinds of narrators (reliable and unreliable), types of narration, point-of-view, voice, etc.--and he sets the terms for literary criticism and the teaching of ... see all copies from $2.89! new only from $17.92! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communications more books like this by Wayne C Booth add to wishlist In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. This title was written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, "The Rhetoric of Fiction" (1961). It explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, in politics, and in the media. It ... see all copies from $18.99! new only from $22.25! \| SVS
5	A rhetoric of irony more books like this by Wayne C Booth add to wishlist Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies--and why we often fail when we try to do so. ... see all copies from $7.89! new only from $21.80! \| SVS
6	Literature as Exp more books like this by Louise M Rosenblatt, Wayne Booth (Foreword by) add to wishlist Louise Rosenblatt's "Literature as Exploration" has influenced literary theorists and teachers of literature at all levels for six decades. Now reissued in an attractive trade edition, it features a new foreword by Wayne Booth, a new preface and retrospective chapter by the author, and an updated list of suggested readings. In "Literature as ... see all copies from $4.93! new only from $12.62! \| SVS
7	The Company We Keep more books like this by Wayne C Booth add to wishlist In "The Company We Keep", Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. But the questions he asks are not confined to morality. Returning ethics to its root sense, Booth proposes that the ethical critic will be interested in any effect on the ethos, the total character or quality of tellers and ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $22.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals more books like this by Wayne C Booth add to wishlist Why would anyone spend free hours and weekends on a demanding practice that promises no payoff in money, fame, or power? Is it true that anything worth doing is worth doing only if you can get credit for doing it really well? Why do amateurs do what they do? Wayne Booth found himself enticed by these questions after taking up the cello at age 31 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.27! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988 more books like this by Wayne C Booth add to wishlist This critically acclaimed collection is both a passionate celebration of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent personal account of the pleasures of teaching, he also vigorously exposes the political and economic scandals that frustrate even the most dedicated ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent more books like this by Wayne C Booth add to wishlist 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 that have too often inhibited efforts to answer these questions. Modern dogmas teach that "you cannot reason about values" and that "the job of thought is to doubt whatever can be doubted, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Now Don't Try to Reason with Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age more books like this by Wayne C Booth add to wishlist 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 heart with truths of the head and allow us all to discover shared convictions in mutual inquiry. First delivered as lectures in the 1960s, when Booth was a professor at Earlham College and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and Aging more books like this by Wayne Booth (Editor) add to wishlist Wayne Booth's anthology of writings on the subject of aging features selections by well-known writers through the ages. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.45! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Knowledge Most Worth Having more books like this by Wayne C Booth (Editor) add to wishlist "The Knowledge Most Worth Having "represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago--faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of knowledge in one's chosen field. The papers collected here were delivered during an often-heated ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $19.64! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism more books like this by Wayne C Booth add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.31! new only from $36.00! \| first editions
15	The Harper & Row Rhetoric: Writing as Thinking, Thinking as Writing more books like this by Wayne C Booth, Marshall W Gregory add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.00!
16	The Harper & Row Reader: Liberal Education Through Reading and Writing more books like this by Wayne C Booth, Marshall W Gregory add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions
17 view cover	My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony more books like this by Wayne C Booth add to wishlist In his autobiography, "My Many Selves, " Wayne C. Booth is less concerned with his professional achievements---though the book by no means ignores his distinguished career---than with the personal vision that emerges from a long life lived thoughtfully. For Booth, even the autobiographical process becomes part of a quest to harmonize the diverse, ... see all copies from $15.89! new only from $18.07! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Harper and Row Reader more books like this by Paul R Gregory, Wayne C Booth, Marshall W Gregory add to wishlist Teaching writing, critical thinking, and argument, this popular reader features more than 100 thought-provoking selections written by some of history's classic thinkers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $65.00!
19 view cover	Selected Writings of Richard McKeon Volume 2: Culture, Education, and the Arts more books like this by Zahava K McKeon (Editor), William G Swenson (Editor), Wayne C Booth (Introduction by) add to wishlist Richard McKeon was a philosopher of extraordinary creativity who brought profoundly original ideas to bear on more standard ways of thinking and learning. A classicist, medievalist, and revolutionary intellectual, he fashioned an approach to philosophy as a plural conversation among varied traditions of thought, epochs, and civilizations. This ... see all copies from $45.00! new only from $51.00! \| first editions
20	The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction more books like this by Wayne C Booth add to wishlist see all copies from $6.21! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Writer Writing: Philosophic Acts in Literature more books like this by Francis-Noel Thomas, Wayne C. Booth (Foreword by) add to wishlist In a challenge to deconstructed texts, this treatise argues that it is time to re-examine a fundamental but neglected concept of literature: writing is an action whose agent is an individual. It offers readings of Shaw's "Saint Joan" and Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu". see all copies from $3.04! first editions
22	Literature as Exploration 5/E more books like this by Louise M Rosenblatt, Wayne Booth (Foreword by) add to wishlist In Literature as Exploration, Rosenblatt presents her unique theory of literature and focuses on the immense, often untapped, potential for the study and teaching of literature in a democratic society. Her "transactional" theory of literature examines the reciprocal nature of the literary experience and explains why meaning is neither "in" the ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $33.18! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Essential Wayne Booth more books like this by Wayne C Booth, Mr. Walter Jost (Editor) add to wishlist Wayne 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 ... see all copies from $27.21! new only from $27.21! \| SVS
24	The Harper & Row Reader: Liberal Education Through Reading and Writing more books like this by Marshall W Gregory add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! SVS
25 view cover	Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader more books like this by Wayne C Booth, Stephen K George (Editor) add to wishlist Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine and confront the ultimate questions of life? Do the human activities of storytelling and complex moral decision-making have a deep connection? What are the moral responsibilities of the artist ... see all copies from $49.23! new only from $49.23! \| SVS

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