How Words Make Things Happen 1st ediiton

How Words Make Things Happen 1st ediiton- Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN: 9780199672790, 0199672792,9780192581921, 0192581929

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192581929
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780192581921
• Author: David Bromwich

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 nothing happen’) together have produced a misleading account of the relations between words and human action. Words do make things happen. But they cannot be counted on to produce the result they intend.

Table 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

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