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020    0199672792|q(hardback) 
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041    eng 
082 04 808.03|223 
092 0  808|bengelska 
100 1  Bromwich, David,|d1951-|4aut 
245 10 How words make things happen /|cDavid Bromwich 
250    First edition 
264  1 Oxford, United Kingdom ;|aNew York, NY :|bOxford 
       University Press,|c2019 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    xi, 113 pages ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 8  1. Does Persuasion Occur? Austin, Aristotle, Cicero -- 2. 
       Speakers Who Convince Themselves: Shakespeare, Milton, 
       James -- 3. Pledging Emotion for Conviction: Burke, 
       Lincoln, Bagehot -- 4. Persuasion and Responsibility: 
       Yeats, Auden, Orwell -- 5. What Are We Allowed to Say? 
       Rushdie, Mill, Savio 
520 8  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
       to produce the result they intend.0This 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 propounded by J.L. Austin. 'Speakers
       Who Convince Themselves' is the subject of chapter 2, 
       which interprets two soliloquies by Shakespeare's 
       characters and two by Milton's Satan. The oratory of Burke
       and Lincoln come in for extended treatment in chapter 3, 
       while chapter 4 looks at the rival tendencies of moral 
       suasion and aestheticism in the0poetry of Yeats and Auden.
       The final chapter, a cause of controversy when first 
       published in the London Review of Books, supports a policy
       of unrestricted free speech against contemporary proposals
       of censorship. Since we cannot know what our own words are
       going to do, we have no standing to justify the banishment
       of one set of words in favour of another 
650  7 Övertalning|2sao 
650  7 Övertalning i litteraturen|2sao 
650  7 Retorik|2sao 
650  7 Persuasion (Rhetoric)|2fast 
650  7 Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature.|2fast 
776 08 |iElectronic version:|aBromwich, David, 1951-|tHow words 
       make things happen.|bFirst edition.|dOxford, United 
       Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019
       |z9780191822513|w(OCoLC)1090373633