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Booth was born in Utah of Latter-day Saint parents, Wayne Chipman Booth and Lillian Clayson Booth. The older Booth died in 1927, when young Wayne was six years old. [1] Booth graduated from American Fork High School in 1938. [2] He was educated at Brigham Young University and the University of Chicago.
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 ]
Booth's text-immanent model of narrator unreliability has been criticized by Ansgar Nünning for disregarding the reader's role in the perception of reliability and for relying on the insufficiently defined concept of the implied author. Nünning updates Booth's work with a cognitive theory of unreliability that rests on the reader's values and ...
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 ...
Wayne C. Booth – former Professor of English; literary critic; author of The Rhetoric of Fiction and The Company We Keep [69] Anna Cox Brinton and Howard Brinton – Quaker scholars and administrators; John Elwood Bundy – impressionist painter; Evan Ira Farber – Emeritus Library Director, named Academic Research Librarian of the Year in 1980
The Craft of Research, a collaborative textbook written by Williams and his two long-term academic colleagues and friends – Wayne C. Booth and Gregory G. Colomb, – was designed to help students plan, carry out and report on research in any field and at any level – from a term paper to a dissertation, an article, and a book.
Shared inquiry, following Wayne C. Booth, can be understood as "the art of reasoning together about shared concerns" (1988, p. 108). It is shared because the judgment is discursively negotiated with reference to both the crux of the matter and in light of what is in the best interest of oneself or some other.