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Description Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom ISBN: 0062226657 | 2016 | EPUB | 224 Pages | 602 KB by Stanley Fish A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class English and Law professor and bestselling author of How to Write a Sentence. Filled with the wit and observational prowess that shaped Stanley Fish's acclaimed bestseller How to Write a Sentence, Winning Arguments guides readers through the "greatest hits" of rhetoric. In this clever and engaging guide, Fish offers insight and outlines the crucial keys you need to win any debate, anywhere, anytime-drawn from landmark legal cases, politics, his own career, and even popular film and television. A celebration of clashing minds and viewpoints, Winning Arguments is sure to become a classic. An important book for any lawyer, scholar, or pundit-not to mention any spouse who has tried to walk back fractious words-Fish’s shrewd work can help everyone better understand the power of effective communication in everyday life. (Publishers Weekly) Compelling...The points [Fish] presents are philosophical, metaphysical, even ontological. (Kirkus) “Timely… readers will find this latest work simultaneously challenging and accessible.” (Library Journal) “A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” (Slate on HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE) “Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style.” (Financial Times on HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE) “[Fish] shares his connoisseurship of the elegant sentence.” (New Yorker on HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE) “How to Write a Sentence is a must read for aspiring writers and anyone who wants to deepen their appreciation of literature. If extraordinary sentences are like sports plays, Fish is the Vin Scully of great writing.” (Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, authors of They Say/I Say) Stanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is often associated with postmodernism, at times to his irritation, as he describes himself as an anti-foundationalist. He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a Professor of Law at Florida International University, in Miami, as well as Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of 10 books. Professor Fish has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Duke University. Sharing Widget |