Tag Archives: Wayne Booth

A Lit Theory that Affirms Readers

By Robin Bates | Published: May 21, 2012

The students in my “Theories of the Reader ” course found the theorists we read affirming.

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Books as Friends, Good but also Bad

By Robin Bates | Published: March 8, 2012

Theorist Wayne Booth compares the impact that books have on us to that of friends. Some friends have a good influence, some not.

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Can Poetry Be Bad for You?

By Robin Bates | Published: February 2, 2012

The possibility that poetry can have a deleterious effect on one (the poetry of Scott and Byron anyway) is a possibility that Austen brings up in “Persuasion.”

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The Classics, Guides to Our Best Selves

By Robin Bates | Published: January 12, 2012

Wayne Booth describes the classics as friends in the deepest and most productive sense of the word.

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