The Art Of Interesting
Subtitle: its theory and practice for speakers and writers
Publisher: P.J. Kenedy & Sons
Published: 1920
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: CHAPTER PAGE; title: I. The Tiresome Speaker  3; title: II. Interest from Directness   19; title: III. The Art of Eloquence and the Science of Theology  37; title: IV. The Imagination of the Speaker 53; title: V. Interest from Emotions 73; title: VI. Memory as a Test of Interest 87; title: VII. Newman and the Academic Style 99; title: VIII. Pardow and the Popular Style 123; title: IX. Interest from Antagonism   143; title: X. Macaulay and "Journalese" 155; title: XI. Literary Agility 165; title: XII. Tabb and Fancy 175; title: XIII. Poetry and Interest   191; title: XIV. Novelty or Eccentricity   199; title: XV. The Need of Imagination  215; title: XVI. Developing the Imagination 225; title: XVII. Is Esthetic Emotion a Spinal Thrill? 237; title: XVIII. Originality by Imitation   251; title: XIX Exercises for the Imagination 267; title: Synopsis of Contents   311