How Words Make Things Happen

by David Bromwich

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199672792
• ISBN13: 9780199672790
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.8"