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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Main Author: Bromwich, David, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
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