The Rhetoric of RHETORIC
The Quest for Effective Communication
Published on 9. February 2009
224 pages
978-0-470-76582-1 (ISBN)
Description
In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims thatcommunication in every corner of life can be improved if we studyrhetoric closely.
* * Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, TheRhetoric of Fiction (1961).
* * Explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, inpolitics, and in the media.
* * Investigates the possibility of reducing harmful conflict bypractising a rhetoric that depends on deep listening by bothsides.
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"In The Rhetoric of RHETORIC Wayne C. Booth passionately and persuasively demonstrates the centrality of rhetoric to human inquiry and human interaction. Taking Booth's manifesto seriously -- responding to it in the spirit of what he calls 'listening rhetoric' -- can improve the quality of our thought, our interactions, and, thus, our lives." James Phelan, Ohio State UniversityMore details
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Wayne C. Booth is Distinguished Service Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Chicago. His previous publications include The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), A Rhetoric of Irony (1974), Critical Understanding (1979), The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (1988), The Craft of Research (with Williams and Colomb, 1994), and For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals (1999). Like most of his publications, his teaching has concentrated on diverse ways of improving human communication.
Content
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I Rhetoric's Status: Up, Down, and - Up?.
1 How Many "Rhetorics"?.
2 A Condensed History of Rhetorical Studies.
3 Judging Rhetoric.
4 Some Major Rescuers.
Part II The Need for Rhetorical Studies Today.
5 The Fate of Rhetoric in Education.
6 The Threats of Political Rhetrickery.
7 Media Rhetrickery.
Part III Reducing Rhetorical Warfare.
8 Can Rhetorology Yield More Than a Mere Truce, in Any of Our"Wars"?.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Index of Names and Titles.
Index of Subjects
