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Conversation A History of a Declining Art

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ISBN-10: 0300110308

ISBN-13: 9780300110302

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephen Miller

List price: $40.00
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In this historical and philosophical overview, Stephen Miller traces the art of conversation from Ancient Greece to its apex in 18th century Britain and to its endangered state in modern America. He explores conversations amongst great writers and pinpoints modern technology and customs as threats to the continuation of this art.
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 3/11/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.122

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 conversation : eighteenth-century Britain
Samuel Johnson : a conversational triumph; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : conversation lost