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In what was likely Booth's most-recognized book, The Rhetoric of Fiction, he argued that all narrative is a form of rhetoric. The book can be seen as his critique of those he viewed as mainstream critics. Booth argues that beginning roughly with Henry James, critics began to emphasize the difference between "showing" and "telling" in fiction ...
Jennifer Mercieca is an American scholar of rhetoric. She is a professor of communication at Texas A&M University . She has written about the rhetorical style of Donald Trump , and the founding narratives that informed the political culture of the United States.
Seymour Chatman (August 30, 1928 – November 4, 2015) was an American film and literary critic and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. [ 1 ] He is one of the most significant figures of American narratology (theory of narrative), regarded as a prominent representative of its structuralist branch.
James Phelan (pronounced / ˈ f eɪ l ə n /; [2] born 1951) is an American writer and literary scholar of narratology.He is a third-generation Neo-Aristotelian literary critic of the Chicago School [3] [4] whose work builds on and refines the work of Wayne C. Booth, with a focus on the rhetorical aspects of narrative.
In the first chapter of his 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction, Wayne C. Booth quotes the "fine young novelist" Harris as saying: "You will no more expect the novelist to tell you precisely how something is said than you will expect him to stand by your chair and hold your book." [8]
While Books I and II are more systematic and address ethos, logos, and pathos, Book III is often considered a conglomeration of Greek stylistic devices on rhetoric. However, Book III contains informative material on lexis (style) which refers to the "way of saying" [1]: III.1–12 and taxis, which refers to the arrangement of words. [1]: III.13 ...
In his 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction, Wayne C. Booth introduced the term implied author to distinguish the virtual author of the text from the real author. In addition, he proposed another concept, the career-author : a composite of the implied authors of all of a given author's works. [ 2 ]
The question for the Chicago School (as it was for Aristotle) was always what the purpose of the theory of criticism was, what hypotheses were brought to bear by the theory about the nature of literature (for instance, whether it consisted of the words alone, or whether it was to be thought of as part of a larger context such as an era or an artist's life), and the definitions of words (such ...