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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 ...
The book covers the history of rhetoric, and uses modern examples of how persuasion is used in politics, advertising, media - and how you can teach a kid to argue. [ 6 ] References
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 ]
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.
Book I offers a general overview, presenting the purposes of rhetoric and a working definition; it also offers a detailed discussion of the major contexts and types of rhetoric. Book II discusses in detail the three means of persuasion that an orator must rely on: those grounded in credibility , in the emotions and psychology of the audience ...
The rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse) are a broad traditional classification of the major kinds of formal and academic writing (including speech-writing) by their rhetorical (persuasive) purpose: narration, description, exposition, and argumentation.
A General Rhetoric is a 1970 book by the Belgian semioticians known as Groupe μ. The first part of the book reformulates classical rhetoric within semiotics, [ 1 ] while the second part discusses the new concept of a general rhetoric , which introduces rhetorical figures for storytelling , called figures of narration .
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.