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Conversation : a history of a declining art / Stephen Miller.
Publication details: New Haven, CT ; London, UK : Yale University Press, 2006.Description: xv, 336 p.: 23 cmISBN:- 9780300123654 (pbk.) :
- 0300123655 (pbk.) :
- 0300110308 (hardcover: alk. paper):
- 9780300110302 (hardcover: alk. paper):
- P95.45 .M54 2006
Contents:
Conversations and its discontents -- Ancient conversation: from the Book of Job to Plato's Symposium -- Three factors affecting conversation: religion, commerce, women -- The age of conversation: 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?
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | P 95.45 .M54 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | hbk. | Available | 600805 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conversations and its discontents -- Ancient conversation: from the Book of Job to Plato's Symposium -- Three factors affecting conversation: religion, commerce, women -- The age of conversation: 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?
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