Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early AmericaUNC Press Books, 2000 - 287 páginas Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that |
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... ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1810 ) , 19 , 30-31 . Adams was selected to fill the chair at Harvard that a Boston merchant had funded in 1771 but that had been left vacant during the turbulent interim ( iii - iv ) . Edward G. Parker traces the ...
... ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1810 ) , 19 , 30-31 . Adams was selected to fill the chair at Harvard that a Boston merchant had funded in 1771 but that had been left vacant during the turbulent interim ( iii - iv ) . Edward G. Parker traces the ...
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... ( Cambridge , 1984 ) ; Robert A. Fergu- son , Law and Letters in American Culture ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1984 ) ; Ferguson , " The American Enlightenment , 1750-1820 , ” in Sacvan Bercovitch , ed . , The Cambridge History of American Lit ...
... ( Cambridge , 1984 ) ; Robert A. Fergu- son , Law and Letters in American Culture ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1984 ) ; Ferguson , " The American Enlightenment , 1750-1820 , ” in Sacvan Bercovitch , ed . , The Cambridge History of American Lit ...
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... ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1975 ) . Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick dis- cuss the relationship between performance and Austin's performativity in " Performativity and Performance , " introduction to Parker and Sedgwick , eds ...
... ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1975 ) . Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick dis- cuss the relationship between performance and Austin's performativity in " Performativity and Performance , " introduction to Parker and Sedgwick , eds ...
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... ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1990 ) , 1. Warner goes on to analyze the implications of that historical moment and to critique technological determinism in the study of print culture in chap . 1 . With its emphasis on print culture as a central ...
... ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1990 ) , 1. Warner goes on to analyze the implications of that historical moment and to critique technological determinism in the study of print culture in chap . 1 . With its emphasis on print culture as a central ...
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... ( Cambridge , 1986 ) ; Goody , The Interface between the Written and the Oral ( Cambridge , 1987 ) . For an analysis of oral and text - based performance from the perspective of a student of oral cultures , see Ruth Finnegan , Oral Poetry ...
... ( Cambridge , 1986 ) ; Goody , The Interface between the Written and the Oral ( Cambridge , 1987 ) . For an analysis of oral and text - based performance from the perspective of a student of oral cultures , see Ruth Finnegan , Oral Poetry ...
Contenido
1 Gender | 40 |
2 | 75 |
Life Edwards resolved the socially destabilizing themes and the | 79 |
3 | 111 |
4 | 140 |
symbolic significance of speech to the patriot movement Echoing | 151 |
5 | 171 |
Smith ed Letters of Delegates to | 199 |
Forms of State | 200 |
Washingtons gesturing arm in the Lansdowne portrait unifies and transcends | 220 |
Political Speech in | 233 |
CONCLUSION | 267 |
TRADITIONS OF THE ANCIENTS | 271 |
art into the material representation of an emotion of | 278 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America Sandra M. Gustafson Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early America Sandra M. Gustafson Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
Términos y frases comunes
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New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing David Read Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary Scott E. Casper,Joanne D. Chaison,Jeffrey D. Groves Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |