Friends
Eugene Goodheart, 16 March 1989
The company we keep: An Ethics of Fiction
by Wayne Booth.
California, 485 pp., $29.55, November 1988,0 520 06203 5 Show More
by Wayne Booth.
California, 485 pp., $29.55, November 1988,
“... a matter of renewed literary and philosophical concern. I have in mind the recent work of Hillis Miller (The Ethics of Reading), Tobin Sieber (The Ethics of Criticism), Alisdair MacIntyre (After Virtue) and Barbara Hernnstein Smith (Contingencies of Value). What Booth has rediscovered is that ethical criticism is in a sense a redundancy, since all ... ”