The Unbroken Continuum: Booth/Gregory on Teaching and Ethical Criticism

Marshall W. Gregory, Butler University

Abstract

The author relates the development of his personal and professional relationship with English professor Wayne C. Booth. He became a student of Booth in a literary criticism course at the University of Chicago in Illinois. He states that the qualities and methods used by Booth as a teacher made him realize the possibility of developing into a different kind of person. He mentions that they spent their time examining every aspect of life by applying the idea of intellectuals such as Plato.

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