Becoming a Great Essayist Season 1 Episode 6

Becoming a Great Essayist Season 1 Episode 6 The Unreasonable Essayist: Strategic Irony

  • TV-PG
  • November 1, 2016
  • 30 min

Professor Cognard-Black explores the world of unreasonable essays, often written for the sake of humor or irony, or to be provocative, such as Jonathan Swift€™s €œA Modest Proposal.€ You€™ll explore an example of an essay that showcases conflicting views yet remains reasonable, and then look at examples where unreasonable writers use pure demagoguery to play on readers€™ emotions.

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  • First Aired
    November 1, 2016
  • Content Rating
    TV-PG
  • Runtime
    30 min
  • Language
    English
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