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Wayne Booth defined rhetoric as "the art of persuasion." In Booth's perspective, a proficient author or speaker, when adopting a rhetorical stance, harmonizes three fundamental components within their discourse: the speaker, the argument, and the audience.
Wayne Clayson Booth (February 22, 1921, in American Fork, Utah – October 10, 2005, in Chicago, Illinois) was an American literary critic and rhetorician.He was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature and the College at the University of Chicago.
A Rhetoric of Irony [1] is a book about irony by American literary critic Wayne Booth. Booth argues that in addition to forms of literary irony, there are ironies that lack a stable referent. Booth argues that in addition to forms of literary irony, there are ironies that lack a stable referent.
Rhetrickery is a term defined by Wayne C. Booth to describe the “whole range of shoddy dishonest communicative arts producing misunderstanding — along with other harmful results. The arts of making the worst seem the better course.” (Booth, 2004, p 11).
Neo-Aristotelianism is a view of literature and rhetorical criticism propagated by the Chicago School [1] — Ronald S. Crane, Elder Olson, Richard McKeon, Wayne Booth, and others — which means: "A view of literature and criticism which takes a pluralistic attitude toward the history of literature and seeks to view literary works and critical ...
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.
There would be a rush to condemn the violent rhetoric and weeks of questions from the press, angry editorials and backpedaling by Republicans spooked at the prospect of a sympathy vote wiping them ...
In A Rhetoric of Irony, Wayne C. Booth seeks to answer the question of "how we manage to share ironies and why we so often do not". [ 18 ] Because irony involves expressing something in a way contrary to literal meaning, it always involves a kind of "translation" on the part of the audience. [ 41 ]