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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Critical Understanding
• Subtitle: Powers and Limits of Pluralism
• Author: Wayne C. Booth
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 422
• EAN: 9780226065557
• ISBN: 0226065553
• ID: 04542750
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 481 g
• Dimensions: 250 × 130 × 26 mm

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