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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... Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England ( Berkeley , Calif . , 1987 ) ; Donald Weber , Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England ( Oxford , 1988 ) ; Kenneth Cmiel , Democratic Eloquence : The Fight ...
... Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England ( Berkeley , Calif . , 1987 ) ; Donald Weber , Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England ( Oxford , 1988 ) ; Kenneth Cmiel , Democratic Eloquence : The Fight ...
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... Hutchinson . The response to both situations was the same : textual discipline that devalued native American oral forms as savage speech , remade native communities in the image of Scripture , and demonized the eloquence of inspired ...
... Hutchinson . The response to both situations was the same : textual discipline that devalued native American oral forms as savage speech , remade native communities in the image of Scripture , and demonized the eloquence of inspired ...
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... Hutchinson drew the wrath of the clergy , not so much through the large meetings she held in her home to review and discuss the week's sermons - a practice she justly defended as well established in the colony- as through the invidious ...
... Hutchinson drew the wrath of the clergy , not so much through the large meetings she held in her home to review and discuss the week's sermons - a practice she justly defended as well established in the colony- as through the invidious ...
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... Hutchinson's conflict with the Bay Colony ministers helped bring into focus a set of personal and doctrinal differences whose meaning was enacted in the pulpits of New England . When Hutchinson claimed that she could distinguish ...
... Hutchinson's conflict with the Bay Colony ministers helped bring into focus a set of personal and doctrinal differences whose meaning was enacted in the pulpits of New England . When Hutchinson claimed that she could distinguish ...
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... Hutchinson the killing power of the letter ultimately manifested itself in the gender hierarchy that supported ministerial authority over the spiritual claims of women and other laypeople . The Puritan understanding of speech and text ...
... Hutchinson the killing power of the letter ultimately manifested itself in the gender hierarchy that supported ministerial authority over the spiritual claims of women and other laypeople . The Puritan understanding of speech and text ...
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 |
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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 |