| Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism Revised Edition Contributor(s): Booth, Wayne C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226065553 ISBN-13: 9780226065557 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $48.51 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1982 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 801.95 |
| LCCN: 78015107 |
| Series: Powers and Limits of Pluralism |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.9" W x 8.97" (1.00 lbs) 422 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |