Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of PluralismUniversity of Chicago Press, 1979 - 408페이지 Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In Critical Understanding, Booth argues for a reasoned pluralism—a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any one critic's net. He relates three noted pluralists—Ronald Crane, Kenneth Burke, and M. H. Abrams—to various currently popular critical approaches. Throughout, Booth tests the abstractions of metacriticism against particular literary works, devoting a substantial portion of his discussion to works by W. H. Auden, Henry James, Oliver Goldsmith, and Anatole France. |
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THE PLURALITY OF Modes as a PROBLEM | 1 |
RONALD CRANE AND THE PLURalism of Discrete MODES | 37 |
Method 68 | 48 |
Lumping and Splitting | 69 |
THE MULTIPLICATION | 99 |
THE PURSUIT OF UNDERSTANDING AS A LIMIT OF PLURALISM | 197 |
THE NEED | 235 |
OUR MANY DIFFERENT BUSINESSES WITH | 259 |
The Law of Disparate | 272 |
Thaïs | 319 |
Overstanding Once Again | 335 |
Appendix | 351 |
Index of Concepts | 379 |
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