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The Empathetic Essayist: Evoking Emotion. Cover Image E-video E-video

The Empathetic Essayist: Evoking Emotion.

Teaching Company (Distributor). Kanopy (Firm) (Distributor).

Summary:

Revisit Aristotle to master the craft of pathośbeing able to express empathy for the subject of any essay. Learn how to elicit emotions from your readers while remaining authentic and not manipulative, clich©♭d, or contrived. Reflect on honest and moving uses of language from Maxine Hong Kingston and Barack Obama, who once perfectly summed up the importance of pathos in a speech by saying, ́Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world[.]́

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
  • Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses, 2016.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Participant or Performer Note:
Jennifer Cognard-Black
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2016.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language Note:
In English
Genre: Literature.
Educational films.


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