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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... Puritan patriarchs John Winthrop and John Eliot to Great Awakening adversaries Charles Chauncy and Gilbert Tennent , to Revolutionary leaders James Otis and George Washington , Euro - Americans made the analogy between verbal forms and ...
... Puritan patriarchs John Winthrop and John Eliot to Great Awakening adversaries Charles Chauncy and Gilbert Tennent , to Revolutionary leaders James Otis and George Washington , Euro - Americans made the analogy between verbal forms and ...
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... Puritan sermon structure of text- doctrine - reasons - uses - application . The Puritan preacher took as his primary rhe- torical goal the creation of a sense of the divine order that required no socially restricted language skills such ...
... Puritan sermon structure of text- doctrine - reasons - uses - application . The Puritan preacher took as his primary rhe- torical goal the creation of a sense of the divine order that required no socially restricted language skills such ...
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... Puritan sermons effected a linguistic ascesis rejecting “ Philosophie , or fables , or lying Legends . . . poeticall fictions , Thalmudical dreams , Schoolmens quiddities , Popish decrees , or humane consti- tutions or . . . the fine ...
... Puritan sermons effected a linguistic ascesis rejecting “ Philosophie , or fables , or lying Legends . . . poeticall fictions , Thalmudical dreams , Schoolmens quiddities , Popish decrees , or humane consti- tutions or . . . the fine ...
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Oratory & Performance in Early America Sandra M. Gustafson. printed Bible , Puritan ministers developed a new idiom rich with scriptural allu- sions and metaphors . Puritan speech drew on the Bible and other sacred texts while ...
Oratory & Performance in Early America Sandra M. Gustafson. printed Bible , Puritan ministers developed a new idiom rich with scriptural allu- sions and metaphors . Puritan speech drew on the Bible and other sacred texts while ...
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... Puritan rhetorical theorists conceived of the sermon as a semispontaneous oral performance that permitted the preacher's response to his immediate setting . They held that sermons truly expressed the will of God only when they applied ...
... Puritan rhetorical theorists conceived of the sermon as a semispontaneous oral performance that permitted the preacher's response to his immediate setting . They held that sermons truly expressed the will of God only when they applied ...
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 |