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This critically acclaimed collection is both a passionate celebration of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent personal account of the pleasures of teaching, he also vigorously exposes the political and... read more
First Sentence
What kind of "occasion," exactly, is faced by anyone choosing to become an English teacher in these late, threatening decades of a most puzzling and threatening century?
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Wayne C. Booth (Author)
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