(print) xii, 336 p. ; 24 cm

Acknowledgments -- Short titles -- Introduction. p.1 -- 1. Teaching the topics: character, rhetoric, and liberal education. p.19 -- 2. Cultural literacy: concepts and information. p.40 -- 3. Wayne Booth and the ethics of fiction. p.59 -- 4. Elie Wiesel and the ethics of fiction. p.71 -- 5. Booth, Bakhtin, and the culture of criticism. p.88 -- 6. From pluralism to heteroglossia: Wayne Booth and the pragmatics of critical reviewing. p.104 -- 7. Pluralism, politics, and the evaluation of criticism. p.119 -- 8. Wayne Booth and the politics of ethics. p.135 -- 9. Learning to read Martin Luther King's "Pilgrimage to nonviolence": Wayne Booth, character, and the ethical criticism of public address. p.153 -- 10. "Three times out of five something happens": James M. Cain and the ethics of music. p.167 -- 11. Keeping the company of sophisters, economists, and calculators. p.187 -- 12. Saying what goes without saying: the rhetoric of Bacon's Essays. p.211 -- 13. Wayne Booth and the ethics of argument. p.239 -- 14. The logic and rhetoric of systematic assent. p.253 -- 15. Rhetoric without sophistry: Wayne Booth and the rhetoric of inquiry. p.266 -- Afterword: let us all mount our good chargers, whatever their names, and gallop off joyfully in all directions, a mysteriously united company serving the empress of all the sciences, rhetoric. p.279 -- Bibliography: Wayne C. Booth. p.309 -- Contributors. p.323 -- Index. p.327