Dec 22, 2009

For the Love of It | For the Love of It

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Author: Wayne C. Booth
First Published: 1999
Type of Work: Memoirs
Time of Work: 1925-1998
Principal Characters: Wayne Booth, Phyllis Booth
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
Subjects: Twentieth century, Music or musicians, Learning or scholarship

For students of literature, Wayne Booth is one of the most familiar names among American literary critics. Although he has taught at Haverford College and Earlham College and was elected president of the Modern Language Association of America in 1982, he is most readily associated with the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate and later became Pullman Professor of English, between 1962 and his retirement in 1991. His books of criticism, most published by the University of Chicago Press, include A Rhetoric of Irony (1974), Critical Understanding: The Powers and...

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For the Love of It | For the Love of It

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