Words of Winston Churchill

The Words of Winston Churchill ranges over a controversial and remarkable career, is about the power and art of his language as a writer and speaker, how Churchill used words, as the greatest of poets and orators do, in Parliament, for the people and the world, while, in crisis, defending freedom and democracy

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction


2. Language and the Past as Prologue


3. Speaking and Writing


4. Rhetoric, Parliament, Marlborough and Randolph Churchill


5. Speech on South Africa, 18 February 1901


6. The First World War: Speeches, 7 August 1914 and 22 August 1916


7. Speeches after the Great War and in the 1920s, 18 March 1919, 23 February 1920 and 22 January 1929


8. Speech on India, 26 January 1931


9. Churchill’s Speech on India on 26 January 1931 and the Response


10. Speech, the European Situation, 23 March 1933


11. Responses to Churchill’s Speech on the European Situation, 23 March 1933


12. Epilogue

Index

About the author

Jonathan Locke Hart is chair professor, School of Translation Studies, Shandong University.

Summary

The Words of Winston Churchill ranges over a controversial and remarkable career, is about the power and art of his language as a writer and speaker, how Churchill used words, as the greatest of poets and orators do, in Parliament, for the people and the world, while, in crisis, defending freedom and democracy

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Locke Hart
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781032156415
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3215641-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Political leaders & leadership, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Political leaders and leadership