An introduction to style and rhetoric (the art of persuasion) in
American literature and oratory. The core of this book consists of
catalogues of terms from stylistics, rhetoric, and Speech
Communication (oratory), with examples illustrating the various
devices taken almost exclusively from American sources--novels,
plays, poetry, nonfiction, television programs. This book is
essential reading for academics and nonacademics interested in U.S.
culture, history, literary history, literature, and oratory--but it
will be valued by anyone, scholarly or otherwise, who simply loves
language and the amazing things it can be made to do in the hands
of great writers and skilled persuaders. The catalogues, which
often provide lively and informative mini-essays, cover the span of
U.S. literary history from the early Puritans to Barack Obama, from
the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, from high-brow sources
(literary and oratorical masterpieces) to popular culture.
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