Rhetoric and Rhythm

Hilary Mantel uses examples and a reading from her own novel Vacant Possession, to examine the use of rhetoric and rhythm, and how they can seed ideas in a reader and build up the relationship between reader and text.

An episode of the Creative Writing podcast, hosted by The Open University, titled "Rhetoric and Rhythm" was published on November 10, 2008 and runs 11 minutes.

November 10, 2008 ·11m · Creative Writing

Summary

Hilary Mantel uses examples and a reading from her own novel Vacant Possession, to examine the use of rhetoric and rhythm, and how they can seed ideas in a reader and build up the relationship between reader and text.

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