The Essential Wayne Booth

Introduction by Walter Jost
1. Macbeth as Tragic Hero
2. Control of Distance in Jane Austen's Emma
3. The Rhetorical Stance
4. The Revival of Rhetoric
5. Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation (with Ten Literal "Theses")
6. The Empire of Irony
7. Richard McKeon's Pluralism: The Path between Dogmatism and Relativism
8. How Bakhtin Woke Me Up
9. "The Way I Loved George Eliot": Friendship with Books as a Neglected Critical Metaphor
10. On Relocating Ethical Criticism
11. The Ethics of Form: Taking Flight with The Wings of the Dove
12. The Ethics of Teaching Literature
13. "Of the Standard of Moral Taste": Literary Criticism as Moral Inquiry
14. Rhetoric, Science, Religion
15. The Idea of a University—as Seen by a Rhetorician
16. For the Love of It: Spending, Wasting, and Redeeming Time
17. Coda: Mere Rhetoric, Rhetorology, and the Search for a Common Learning
Notes
Index