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020 $a0300110308 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aP95.45$b.M54 2006
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100 1 $aMiller, Stephen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81152047
245 10 $aConversation :$ba history of a declining art /$cStephen Miller.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axv, 336 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-328) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tConversation and its discontents -- $g2.$tAncient conversation : from the Book of Job to Plato's Symposium -- $g3.$tThree factors affecting conversation : religion, commerce, women -- $g4.$tThe age of conversation : eighteenth-century Britain -- $g5.$tSamuel Johnson : a conversational triumph; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : conversation lost.
520 1 $a"Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state in America. As Harry G. Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of bullshit in his recent bestselling On Bullshit, so Miller now brings the art of conversation into the light, revealing why good conversation matters and why it is in decline." "Miller explores the conversation about conversation among such great writers as Cicero, Montaigne, Swift, Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Virginia Woolf. He focuses on the world of British coffeehouses and clubs in "The Age of Conversation" and examines how this era ended. Turning his attention to the United States, the author traces a prolonged decline in the theory and practice of conversation from Benjamin Franklin through Hemingway to Dick Cheney. He cites our technology (iPods, cell phones, and video games) and our insistence on unguarded forthrightness as well as our fear of being judgmental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aConversation analysis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001018
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005026860.html
852 00 $bglx$hP95.45$i.M54 2006