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The Knowing Most Worth Doing

Hardcover • 2010 • English

The Knowing Most Worth Doing

By Wayne C. Booth

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About the book

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century until his death in 2005, Wayne Booth was one of the most influential literary critics in America and beyond, known worldwide for The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), and hailed as a progressive advocate for rethinking the concept of liberal education in a changing world. His many books and essays remain classic reading for those who wish to understand how fiction communicates ethically, why good ethical criticism as such is a signature human activit...Show more

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ISBN

9780813929927

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

The Knowing Most Worth Doing

Format

Hardcover

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