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Wayne C. Booth
Wayne C. Booth is the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction and For the Love of It: Amateuring and its Rivals, both published by the University of Chicago Press. show more

Wayne C. Booth is the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction and For the Love of It: Amateuring and its Rivals, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 5 years ago
(Original Review, 1981-03-28)When Booth came up with the idea of the "unreliable narrator," he wasn't speaking to writers; he was reminding critics and teachers and readers in general of something every decent writer of fiction has always known: that a narrator is a voice, and a voice is a character...
globulon
globulon rated it 11 years ago
Picked this up after reading the introduction to Nussbaum's "Love's Knowledge". I really liked what she had to say there about the relationship between philosophy and literature. She spoke quite highly of this there. So when I saw it I decided to pick it up.
Harbinger of Books
Harbinger of Books rated it 12 years ago
This is a great book which breaks down the research process on a fundamental level and helps you to think about what motives you and to create a topic and how you derived a question etc. I used this primarily for the social sciences but I think it could be used for other types of research as well.
AC
AC rated it 12 years ago
The copy I've found has pencilled in the margins of p. 165: "This only helps in critical analysis. I don't believe it helps in writing". Seems like a fair assessment of the whole.
Aren's Library
Aren's Library rated it 16 years ago
Helpful informative book for those who use Chicago style.
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