How words make things happen /
Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker's control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy (which assumes that 'poetry makes n...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Does Persuasion Occur? Austin, Aristotle, Cicero
- 2. Speakers Who Convince Themselves: Shakespeare, Milton, James
- 3. Pledging Emotion for Conviction: Burke, Lincoln, Bagehot
- 4. Persuasion and Responsibility: Yeats, Auden, Orwell
- 5. What Are We Allowed to Say? Rushdie, Mill, Savio.