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The Elements of Eloquence
Author | : Mark Forsyth |
Publisher | : Icon Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-11-03 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9781785781728 |
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON. 'An informative but highly entertaining journey through the figures of rhetoric ... Mark Forsyth wears his considerable knowledge lightly. He also writes beautifully.' David Marsh, Guardian. Mark Forsyth presents the secret of writing unforgettable phrases, uncovering the techniques that have made immortal such lines as 'To be or not to be' and 'Bond. James Bond.' In his inimitably entertaining and witty style, he takes apart famous quotations and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde or John Lennon. Crammed with tricks to make the most humdrum sentiments seem poetic or wise, The Elements of Eloquencereveals how writers through the ages have turned humble words into literary gold - and how you can do the same.
Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan說苑
Author | : Liu Xiang |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 1353 |
Release | : 2022-01-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0295806338 |
In 17 BCE the Han dynasty archivist Liu Xiang presented to the throne a collection of some seven hundred items of varying length, mostly quasi-historical anecdotes and narratives, that he deemed essential reading for wise leadership. Garden of Eloquence (Shuoyuan), divided into twenty books grouped by theme, follows a tradition of narrative writing on historical and philosophical themes that began seven centuries earlier. Long popular in China as a source of allusions and quotations, it preserves late Western Han views concerning history, politics, and ethics. Many of its anecdotes are attributed to Confucius’s speeches and teachings that do not appear in earlier texts, demonstrating that long after Confucius’s death in 479 BCE it was still possible for new “historical” narratives to be created. Garden of Eloquence is valuable as a repository of items that originally appeared in other early collections that are no longer extant, and it provides detail on topics as various as astronomy and astrology, yin-yang theory, and quasi-geographical and mystical categories. Eric Henry’s unabridged translation with facing Chinese text and extensive annotation will make this important primary source available for the first time to Anglophone world historians.
The Orator: a Treasury of English Eloquence
Author | : Barrister |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : Speeches, addresses, etc., English |
ISBN | : |
On Eloquence
Author | : Denis Donoghue |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0300145055 |
On Eloquence questions the common assumption that eloquence is merely a subset of rhetoric, a means toward a rhetorical end. Denis Donoghue, an eminent and prolific critic of the English language, holds that this assumption is erroneous. In this book, Donoghue maintains that eloquence should be examined independent of mere rhetoric and that it has its own intrinsic value.