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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795376803321

Autore

Smith Craig R.

Titolo

The Call : Eloquence in the Service of Truth / / Craig R. Smith and Michael Hyde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-62895-451-5

1-60917-684-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

808.51

Soggetti

Eloquence

Persuasion (Rhetoric)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. In the Beginning, and Before That, Too -- Chapter 2. The Elements of Eloquence -- Chapter 3. Cheating Eloquence -- Chapter 4. Epideictic Eloquence -- Chapter 5. Deliberative Eloquence -- Chapter 6. Forensic Eloquence -- Chapter 7. Religious Calls and Sacred Eloquence -- Chapter 8. Art and the Call of the Self/Other -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book examines the phenomenon of the call as a rhetorical event and then instructs speakers how to use eloquence in the service of truth"--