Wayne C. Booth: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Wayne Clayson Booth
Born February 22, 1921 • American Fork • Utah
Died October 10, 2005 (aged 84) • Chicago • Illinois
Founder “Critical Inquiry”
Notable Works “Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent” • “Now Don’t Try to Reason With Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age” • “The Rhetoric of Fiction”
Movement / Style Chicago critics

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