Wayne C. Booth

Wayne Clayton Booth ( born February 22, 1921 in American Fork, Utah; † October 9, 2005 in Chicago ) was an American literary scholar.

Life

Booth was born in 1921 in Utah. In 1944 he finished his studies at Brigham Young University with a Bachelor 's Degree. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he married Phyllis Barnes in 1946 and moved to Chicago. Studied at the University of Chicago and received his PhD in English Literature Booth.

Wayne Booth 1962 Professor first at Haverford College and Earlham College and later at the University of Chicago.

1992 Booth became Professor Emeritus. Most recently he was George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of English.

Work

1961 Wayne Booth authored the book "The Rhetoric of Fiction ." Other important works were "A Rhetoric of Irony " (1974) and "The Company We Keep " (1988).

At Booth's influential conceptions was the concept of the implied author. With reference to these fictional innertextuelle instance Booth departed from the rule sent school of New Criticism. Booth formulated so important basics of reception aesthetics and narrative theory.

Booth also coined the term unreliable narrator.

Works

  • A Rhetoric of Irony, University of Chicago Press, 1975, ISBN 0226065537
  • Critical Understanding. The Powers and Limits of Pluralism, University of Chicago Press 1982, ISBN 0226065553
  • The Rhetoric of Fiction, University of Chicago Press 1983, ISBN 0226065588 (engl. The rhetoric of narrative art, 2 volumes, 1974)
  • The Company We Keep, University of Chicago Press 1990, ISBN 0520062108
  • Along with Marshall W. Gregory: Harper and Row Rhetoric. Writing As Thinking, Thinking As Writing, Harper Collins, 1991, ISBN 0060408359
  • Together with Louise M. Rosenblatt: Literature as Exploration, Modern Language Association of America 1996, ISBN 0873525671
  • Together with Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams: The Craft of Research, University of Chicago Press 2003, ISBN 0226065685
  • Rhetoric of Rhetoric. The Quest for Effective Communications, Blackwell Publishers 2004, ISBN 1405112379

Secondary literature

  • Frederick J. Antczak (ed.): Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth. Ohio State University Press, Columbus OH 1995. ISBN 0814206425 ( digitized on the sides of the publisher in full control)
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