In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely.
- Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961).
- Explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, in politics, and in the media.
- Investigates the possibility of reducing harmful conflict by practising a rhetoric that depends on deep listening by both sides.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l’auteur
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.
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