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David Bromwich

How Words Make Things Happen

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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 toproduce the result they intend.This volume studies examples from a range of speakers and writers and offers close readings of their words. Chapter 1 considers the theory of speech-acts propo… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-258192-1
  • EAN: 9780192581921
  • Produktnummer: 30711738
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 128 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 397 KB

Über den Autor


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.

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