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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... England's colonies derived much of their significance and complexity from the collision of European , native American , and African cultures that defined major aspects of the colonial experience . European colonists in North America ...
... England's colonies derived much of their significance and complexity from the collision of European , native American , and African cultures that defined major aspects of the colonial experience . European colonists in North America ...
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... England ( Berkeley , Calif . , 1987 ) ; Donald Weber , Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England ( Oxford , 1988 ) ; Kenneth Cmiel , Democratic Eloquence : The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth - Century America ( New York ...
... England ( Berkeley , Calif . , 1987 ) ; Donald Weber , Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England ( Oxford , 1988 ) ; Kenneth Cmiel , Democratic Eloquence : The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth - Century America ( New York ...
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... England , " in Seventeenth - Century New England : A Conference Held by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts , June 18 and 19 , 1982 ( Boston , 1984 ) , 276. Brian V. Street provides an incisive critique of the hier- archical coding of ...
... England , " in Seventeenth - Century New England : A Conference Held by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts , June 18 and 19 , 1982 ( Boston , 1984 ) , 276. Brian V. Street provides an incisive critique of the hier- archical coding of ...
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... England that began with the Reformation and crescendoed in the late sixteenth century ; see David Cressy , Literacy and the Social Order : Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England ( Cambridge , 1980 ) , 13 . 5. Purchas ...
... England that began with the Reformation and crescendoed in the late sixteenth century ; see David Cressy , Literacy and the Social Order : Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England ( Cambridge , 1980 ) , 13 . 5. Purchas ...
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... England . For Elyot , oratorical skill derived from the study of classical orations helped to define the public au- thority of the governor : “ The utilitie that a noble man shall have by redying these oratours , is , that , whan he ...
... England . For Elyot , oratorical skill derived from the study of classical orations helped to define the public au- thority of the governor : “ The utilitie that a noble man shall have by redying these oratours , is , that , whan he ...
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 |