How Words Make Things Happen

ISBN-13: 9780199672790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 144 str.

David Bromwich

Opis

Written by a leading literary critic, this engaging volume studies the words of a wide range of speakers and writers to explore the nature of persuasion, the effects of words, and how words can lead to action.

Recenzje

Highly recommended T. B. Dykeman, CHOICE

O autorze

David Bromwich is a scholar of British and American romanticism. He is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, where he has taught since 1988. Among his books are Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic, Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s, and The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke.