num_pages: 400
description: Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In Critical Understanding, Booth argues for a reasoned pluralismâ€”a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any one critic's net. He relates three noted pluralistsâ€”Ronald Crane, Kenneth Burke, and M. H. Abramsâ€”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.
language: English
title: Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
titlecomplete: Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr