Critical Understanding: the Powers and Limits of Pluralism By Booth, Wayne C.
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- Pages
- 408
- Book Condition
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- Cover
- Paperback
- Book Title
- Critical Understanding: the Powers and Limits of Pluralism
- Title
- Critical Understanding: the Powers and Limits of Pluralism By
- Subject
- Literary Criticism
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226065553
ISBN-13
9780226065557
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1260669
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
422 Pages
Publication Name
Critical Understanding : the Powers and Limits of Pluralism
Language
English
Publication Year
1982
Subject
General, Rhetoric
Features
Reprint
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
78-015107
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
801/.95
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Reprint
Table Of Content
Preface 1. The Plurality of Modes as a Problem Babel Six Attitudes toward Critical Variety and Conflict "Pluralistic" Stimulation of Chaotic Warfare Hope for Semantic Resolution Monism Skepticism Eclecticism Methodological Pluralism Problems Raised by This Pluralism Confusion with Other Pluralisms Confusion with Relativism Paradoxical Umbrellas and Other Analogies 2. Ronald Crane and the Pluralism of Discrete Modes Skepticism, Dogmatism, and the Plurality of Human Achievements The New Semantics of Modes Purposes The Plurality of Definitions of "Surgical Ward" as Subject Analogical Placements Literal Placements A Digression on Crane's Notion of the Literal Poem The Search for Sufficient Causes The Use of "Extrinsic" Evidence Judgment at Last: This Poem of This Kind Method Lumping and Splitting Deduction and Induction The Reflexive Discrimination of Problems Principles Charges of Dogmatism and Relativism: How to Test a Mode Coherence Correspondence Comprehensiveness Umbrella Paradox or Harmonious Chorus? 3. Kenneth Burke's Comedy: The Multiplication of Perspectives Burke in Crane's Quadrate Burke in Burke's Pentagon Method: Beginnings and Endings Consequences Literature and Criticism as "Equipment for Living" A Way into and around "Surgical Ward" The Tests of a Good Terministic Screen The Dance as Cure Burke's Reply Dancing with Tears in My Eyes 4. M. H. Abrams: History as Criticism and the Plurality of Histories The Charge of Relativism Once More Reduction of a Story to Ten Static Propositions Reduction of a Story to Static Arguments History as Literary Criticism "Surgical Ward" One Last Time Objections and Replies Abrams' Reply Rationality and Imagination in Cultural History 5. The Pursuit of Understanding as a Limit of Pluralism Problems for the Pluralist of Pluralisms The Failure to Understand (Correspondence) The Failure to be Pluralistic (Adequacy) No Escape intoa Demonstrable Harmony (Coherence) The Pluralist as Pragmatist "Criticism" and "Poetry" as Essentially Contested Concepts Pluralisms as Rival Pragmatisms Three Inseparable Values Vitality Justice Understanding 6. In Defense of the Reader and of Alien Modes: The Need for Overstanding Justice Again Intrinsic/Extrinsic Repudiated Questions and Responses Insisted Upon by the Text "Improper" Questions Violations of Common Knowledge (of Data) Violations of Danda Idiosyncracy as a Source of Violation Modes as a Source Violation as Respect, Respect for Violation 7. Our Many Different Businesses with Art Understanding, Once Again Understanding Five Different "Authors" Writers, Dramatized Authors, Implied Authors, Career-Authors, and Public "Characters" The Authority of the Writer: The Law of Disparate Giftedness The Authority of the Implied Author Four Kinds of Reader Misreading Preconceptions about the Writer and the "Career-Author": A Lesson by the Master Indifference to the Writer's Task: Telling a Ghost Story Preconceptions about a Proper Structure: The Citizen of the World The Uselessness of Rules The Eclipse of the Implied Author by the "Master" Thaïs Overstanding, Once Again Conclusion: Modes and Pluralisms as Shared Tenancies Booth Craned, Burked, and Bramsed Limits Again Critical Understanding as an End in Itself Appendix Notes Index of Concepts Index of Persons and Titles
Synopsis
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., 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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