The Rhetoric of RHETORIC: The Quest for Effective Communication

Wayne C. Booth

2009年2月 · 書商：John Wiley & Sons

關於本電子書

In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely.

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• Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961).
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• Explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, in politics, and in the media.
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• Investigates the possibility of reducing harmful conflict by practising a rhetoric that depends on deep listening by both sides.

關於作者

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.