(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...
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.
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.
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.
Helpful informative book for those who use Chicago style.
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