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The Empathetic Essayist: Evoking Emotion

Revisit Aristotle to master the craft of pathos-being able to express empathy for the subject of any essay. Learn how to elicit emotions from your readers while remaining authentic and not manipulative, cliched, 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[.]""

English
  • Originally Aired June 24, 2016
  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Network The Great Courses
  • Created August 22, 2019 by
    Administrator admin
  • Modified December 18, 2021 by
    ramita254