Wayland Maxfield Parrish
American professor and writer
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Wayland Maxfield Parrish's Degrees
- PhD English Literature Princeton University
- Masters Creative Writing Columbia University
- Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wayland Maxfield Parrish was an American professor and writer. Life and career Born in Mohawk, Ohio, in 1887, he is noted for writing a few books dealing with rhetoric titled Reading Aloud, Speaking in Public, American Speeches, The Teacher's Speech, and Richard Whately's Elements of Rhetoric: Parts I and II. His most well-known are Reading Aloud and American Speeches. He also wrote and contributed to various journal articles concerning speech and rhetoric. He graduated from Cornell's prestigious linguistics program, he went on to teach at the University of Pittsburgh and then the University of Illinois.
Wayland Maxfield Parrish's Published Works
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- The concept of “naturalness”; (1951) (22)
- Whately and his rhetoric (1929) (15)
- Reading aloud : technique in the interpretation of literature (1932) (10)
- Elocution—a definition and a challenge (1957) (9)
- The burglarizing of burgh, or the case of the purloined passions (1952) (4)
- The tradition of rhetoric (1947) (3)
- Objective literary standards in interpretation (1936) (2)
- The Study of Speeches (2020) (2)
- “Getting the meaning” in interpretation (1968) (0)
- Reflections from the retired (1958) (0)
- As in hear, yea, hearken, learn, sweat, speak (1962) (0)
- Speaking in Public (1995) (0)
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