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Powers of persuasion the inside story of British advertising : 1951-2000 / by Fletcher, Winston

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Feminist Narrative Ethics : Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form / by Nash, Katherine Saunders, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The ethics of distance -- The ethics of fair play -- The ethics of persuasion -- The ethics of attention -- Conclusion.…”
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Seductive Reasoning : Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory / by Rooney, Ellen, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Reading pluralism symptomatically -- Persuasion and the production of knowledge -- The limits of pluralism are not plural -- "Not to worry" : the therapeutic rhetoric of Stanley Fish -- Not taking sides : reading the rhetoric of persuasion -- This politics which is not one.…”
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The Tennessee Valley Authority design and persuasion /

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Seductive Reasoning Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory / by Rooney, Ellen, 1957-

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Poets beyond the barricade rhetoric, citizenship, and dissent after 1960 / by Smith, Dale, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…"Dear Gloucester" -- Rhetorics of "advantage" and "pure persuasion" : Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, and Vietnam -- Public witness/public mind : media, citizenship, and dissent in the poetry of Lorenzo Thomas and Edward Dorn -- Poets against war -- Afterword : poetry as a modality of rhetoric in modernist inquiry.…”
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The provisional pulpit modern presidential leadership of public opinion / by Rottinghaus, Brandon, 1977-

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For home and country World War I propaganda on the home front / by Kingsbury, Celia Malone

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Private Practice In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot / by Crenner, Christopher, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The persuasiveness of a scientific doctor -- The organization of a private office -- The diagnosis of hidden disease -- Treatment -- Nervous disease and personal identity -- Medical care for the dying, in principle and in fact -- From Cabot's day to ours.…”
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Ethics and the English novel from Austen to Forster by Wainwright, Valerie, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Modes and sensibilities : varieties of ethical thought -- Narrative perspectives -- On being un/reasonable : Mansfield Park and the limits of persuasion -- Discovering autonomy and authenticity in North and south : Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the liberal ethic -- On goods, virtues and Hard times -- Anatomizing excellence : Middlemarch, moral saints and the languages of belief -- The magic in Mentalité : Hardy's native returns -- Howards End and the confession of imperfection.…”
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From submarines to suburbs selling a better America, 1939-1959 / by Henthorn, Cynthia Lee, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : legacy of the postwar commercial fallout -- Weapons of mass disorder : impediments to mobilization -- Weapons of mass persuasion : mobilization through symbol management -- Positioning machine age heroes and wartime types -- Glimpses into a "better America" -- Home front war : the campaign to save the American way -- Hygienic solutions for the "house of tomorrow" -- Postwar progress : myth or reality? …”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative / by Phelan, James, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /

Table of Contents: “…Barr -- Becoming animal in Black women's science fiction / Madhu Dubey -- God is change: persuasion and pragmatic utopianism in Octavia E. Butler's earthseed novels / Ellen Peel -- Tananarive Due and Nalo Hopkinson revisit the reproduction of mothering: legacies of the past and strategies for the future / Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan -- Close encounters between traditional and nontraditional science fiction: Octavia E. …”
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Intricate thicket : reading late modernist poetries / by Scroggins, Mark, 1964-

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Nazi Soundscapes : Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 1933-1945 / by Birdsall, Carolyn

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