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Farnsworth, Ward

 
9781567923858: Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric: 1
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ISBN 10: 1567923852 ISBN 13: 9781567923858
Editorial: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2010

Sinopsis

This title presents an enlightening overview and analysis of the uses of rhetoric in the English language. The way we use our language to convince and cajole is based on timeless principles - on repetition and variety, suspense and relief, expectation and satisfaction - that have been employed by writers and speakers since the Golden Age of Greece. They can be applied with effect to the construction of simple sentences and paragraphs, or entire compositions. Farnsworth's "Classical English Rhetoric" draws on examples from some of the great masters of English prose - Lincoln and Churchill, Dickens and Melville, Burke and Pain - to illustrate and analyse the most frequently used rhetorical devices with unrivalled clarity and detail. For anyone with an interest in the true potential of language, this is an indispensable guide, a highly useful reference, and a rewarding (and even entertaining) source of instruction.

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Acerca del autor

Ward Farnsworth is Professor of Law and Nancy Barton Scholar at Boston University.

De la contraportada

Rhetoric, one of the oldest academic disciplines, has two

faces: first, the art of using language to influence or persuade;

second, the body of established patterns of language,

spoken or written, that makes words and phrases memorable,

emphatic, and effective. There are very few recent books that

tackle the subject, and in this new effort, written with the

scholar and orator in mind, Farnsworth collects and discusses

the great masters of English prose Lincoln and Churchill,

Dickens and Melville, Burke and Paine and, using their own

words, proceeds to organize, illustrate, and analyze the most

frequently used rhetorical devices with clarity and detail.

The way we use our language to convince and cajole is based

on timeless principles on repetition and variety, suspense and

relief, expectation and satisfaction that have been employed

by writers and speakers since the Golden Age of Greece. They

can be applied with effect to the construction of simple sentences

and paragraphs, or entire compositions. Here, distilled

from the best examples in our language, we see those principles

in actual use: for the general reader it is an indispensable guide,

a highly useful reference, and a rewarding (and even entertaining)

source of instruction.

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Editorial
David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1567923852
ISBN 13 
9781567923858
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
253
Contacto del fabricante
DAVID R. GODINE, PUBLISHER
hansebuch@gmail.com

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