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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... audience , is the modern sense of power con- ceived of as strategic actions undertaken within a web of unequal and unstable social relations . Michel Foucault articulates this meaning of power , identifying it as " the name that one ...
... audience , is the modern sense of power con- ceived of as strategic actions undertaken within a web of unequal and unstable social relations . Michel Foucault articulates this meaning of power , identifying it as " the name that one ...
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... audience . " See her essay in Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit : Essays on Native Ameri- can Life Today ( New York , 1996 ) , 48-59 , esp . 48. N. Scott Momaday similarly describes the sig- nificance of oral tradition for native ...
... audience . " See her essay in Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit : Essays on Native Ameri- can Life Today ( New York , 1996 ) , 48-59 , esp . 48. N. Scott Momaday similarly describes the sig- nificance of oral tradition for native ...
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... audience heard , saw , and understood produced an unavoidable indeterminacy . The translation of the elusive performance into textual form cre- ates a stable point of reference that can be misleading if taken as a full and authen- tic ...
... audience heard , saw , and understood produced an unavoidable indeterminacy . The translation of the elusive performance into textual form cre- ates a stable point of reference that can be misleading if taken as a full and authen- tic ...
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... audience quickly gave way to responses that dramatically marked the differences between them . While the English listened uncomprehendingly , the physical features of the performance absorbing their attention , the Indians under- stood ...
... audience quickly gave way to responses that dramatically marked the differences between them . While the English listened uncomprehendingly , the physical features of the performance absorbing their attention , the Indians under- stood ...
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... audience , or to strange ambassadours of great princes , he shall nat be con- strayned to speake wordes sodayne and disordred , but shal bestowe them aptly and in their places . " Well - ordered speech creates a well - ordered society ...
... audience , or to strange ambassadours of great princes , he shall nat be con- strayned to speake wordes sodayne and disordred , but shal bestowe them aptly and in their places . " Well - ordered speech creates a well - ordered society ...
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 |