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:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Persuasion (Rhetoric) Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature. Persuasion (Rhétorique) dans la littérature. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric. REFERENCE > Writing Skills. Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature Electronic books.
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