The essential Wayne Booth / by Booth, Wayne C.

Table of Contents: “…Macbeth as tragic hero -- Control of distance in Jane Austen's Emma -- The rhetorical stance -- The revival of rhetoric -- Metaphor as rhetoric: the problem of evaluation (with ten literal "theses") -- The empire of irony -- Richard McKeon's pluralism: the path between dogmatism and relativism -- How Bakhtin woke me up -- "The way I loved George Eliot": friendship with books as a neglected critical metaphor -- On relocating ethical criticism -- The ethics of forms: taking flight with The wings of the dove -- The ethics of teaching literature -- "Of the standard of moral taste": literary criticism as moral inquiry -- Rhetoric, science, religion -- The idea of a university--as seen by a rhetorician -- For the love of it: spending, wasting, and redeeming time -- Coda: mere rhetoric, rhetorology, and the search for a common learning.…”