Public Speaking category: 1264 books
How to Write a Love Letter
Putting What's in Your Heart on Paper
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
No one can resist a love letter
Love letters are largely a lost and forgotten art. Not long ago suitors used the written word to work magic, and people were swept off their feet by a sweet, sincere note. How to Write a Love Letter teaches us, once again, how to reinvent this most meaningful...
African Accents
A Workbook for Actors
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This is a comprehensive workbook for actors, covering the key characteristics and profiles of a wide range of African accents of English. Its unique approach not only addresses the methods and processes by which to go about learning an accent, but also looks in detail at each example. This lets the...
by Wayne C. Booth
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible,...
Writing the Mind Alive
The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Discover the revolutionary writing practice that can transform your life!
In 1976, Linda Trichter Metcalf, then a university English professor, sat down with pen and paper and intuitively started a self-guided writing practice that helped to bring herself into focus and clarify her life as...
The Rhetoric of Plato's Republic
Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Plato isn’t exactly thought of as a champion of democracy, and perhaps even less as an important rhetorical theorist. In this book, James L. Kastely recasts Plato in just these lights, offering a vivid new reading of one of Plato’s most important works: the Republic. At heart, Kastely demonstrates,...
by Tschemplik
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus advances a new explanation for the apparent failure of the Theaetetus to come to a satisfactory conclusion about the definition of knowledge. Tschemplik argues that understanding this aporetic dialogue in light of the fact that it was conducted with...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative new-comer to the Anglophone field of classics and much of what characterizes...
Frames, Fields, and Contrasts
New Essays in Semantic and Lexical Organization
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the lexicon. The demand for a fuller and more adequate understanding of lexical meaning required by developments in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science has stimulated a refocused interest in linguistics, psychology,...
English Made Simple, Revised Edition
A Complete, Step-by-Step Guide to Better Language Skills
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
For almost four decades, Made Simple books have set the standard for continuing education and home study. In answer to the changing needsof today's marketplace, the Made Simple series for the '90s presents a thoroughly up-to-the-minute portfolio of skills, information, and experience, with revised...
by Jennifer Rahel Conover
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
This entertaining and comprehensive guide includes more than 1,300 heartwarming, hilarious, cynical, and sentimental toasts for any party or occasion.
Called upon to make a toast at your daughter’s dirthday? Your boss's baby shower? Your brother's wedding? Your sister's divorce? Don't worry...
Reading the Way of Things
Towards a New Technology of Making Sense
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
A Deleuzian guide to reading the world, Reading the Way of Things is an exploration of the ideas of McLuhan, Deleuze, Guattari, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Burroughs, and more. It is a book that aims at getting the reader past teleological interpretations and questions, letting the reader in on new ways of doing criticism as well as new ways of going, being, and thinking.
by Constance Hale
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
"Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch is more than just a writing handbook; it’s a key to unlocking every writer’s innate creativity by offering countless paths to verbal expressiveness." —San Francisco Chronicle
Great sentences pivot on great verbs. In Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch, Constance...
Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology
Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the...
Rhetoric of Femininity
Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Rhetoric of Femininity: Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict offers critical and social identity intersectionalities approach to interpretations of femininity among three generations of women for a rhetorical examination of how femininity is made to mean by media and popular culture....