The Tongue is Also a Fire: Essays on Conversation, Rhetoric and the Transmission of Culture . . . and on C. S. Lewis - Softcover

James Como

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1943003041 ISBN 13: 9781943003044

Publisher: New English Review Press, 2015

Synopsis

With conversation and its rhetoric as the axel of his wheel and culture as its rim, Professor Como examines many spokes that connect one to the other, from teaching and life in higher education, to President Obama, Mickey Mantle, movies, LBJ, Peru, Shakespeare, and C. S. Lewis. Alive with wit, direct address, rich experience, and much learning worn lightly, Como's approaches include scholarship, journalism, how-to instruction, criticism, and anecdote. Yet always at the center is how our conversations build our culture.

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About the Author

JAMES COMO is professor emeritus of rhetoric and public communication at York College of the City University of New York, where he taught for forty-four years until his retirement in 2012. He holds master's degrees in both public and group communication and in medieval English literature and the Ph.D. in language, literature and rhetoric from Columbia University. His interests lie in the interaction of culture and communication, especially as spoken, and in the life and work of C. S. Lewis. He is a founder of the New York C. S. Lewis Society (1969), and his books, articles, lectures, and radio and television commentary dealing with C. S. Lewis are widely known. Since his retirement from full-time teaching, he has published cultural commentary, short stories, and poetry, as well as a sequence of tales for children, The Folk Tales of Brusco and Giovanni.

Edition details

• Publisher: New English Review Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1943003041
• ISBN 13: 9781943003044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240