Conversation : a history of a declining art /
Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered s...
| Основен автор: | Miller, Stephen, 1941- (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
℗♭2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=188089 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Conversation. |
Съдържание:
- Conversation and its discontents
- Ancient conversation : from the Book of Job to Plato's Symposium
- Three factors affecting conversation : religion, commerce, women
- The age of conservation : Eighteenth-century Britain
- Samuel Johnson : a conversational triumph; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : conversation lost
- Conversation in decline : from raillery to reverie
- Conversation in America : from Benjamin Franklin to Dale Carnegie
- Modern enemies of conversation : from countercultural theorists to "white Negroes"
- The ways we don't converse now
- The end of conversation?