Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric
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Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric
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Narrated by:
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Bronson Pinchot
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Jim Meskimen
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By:
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Ward Farnsworth
About this listen
Masters of language can turn unassuming words into phrases that are beautiful, effective, and memorable. What are the secrets of this alchemy? Part of the answer lies in rhetorical figures: practical ways of applying great aesthetic principles—repetition and variety, suspense and relief, concealment and surprise—to a simple sentence or paragraph.
Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric recovers this knowledge for our times. It amounts to a tutorial on eloquence conducted by Churchill and Lincoln, Dickens and Melville, Burke and Paine, and more than a hundred others. The book organizes a vast range of examples from those sources into 18 chapters that illustrate and analyze the most valuable rhetorical devices with unprecedented clarity. The result is an indispensable source of pleasure and instruction for all lovers of the English language.
©2010 Ward Farnsworth (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
Great book, but...
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That's it.
If you want to learn how to use it yourself, the book does not contain exercises or teaching to help you master the skills. If you want to learn the history of these techniques, the book doesn't have that either. If you want explanations on how you can use these techniques in everyday life, the book doesn't have that.
The performance of the audio book is very good and well acted with some effort to mimic the accents and cadences of the various speakers.
The problem for me is that a reference material like this just doesn't work as an audio book. Even taking into account the effort to recreate speeches that existed prior to recorded sound, the program feels flat and uninteresting, which is a shame as the material clearly has great value and well-sourced examples.
If you have the print version and want to hear how each speech might have sounded, then this could be a useful tool but unless you need to hear the wors spoken by an actor, I'd stick to the print version that must be easier to navigate through than an audio book.
Interesting but hard to take it all in.
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needs a classical English accent not americanised
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A marvelous book.
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