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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... authority . Early American ora- tors understood the contextual nature and strategic uses of speech and writing as signs relating the individual body to the social body . Speaking from a range of cultural positions , they adapted that ...
... authority . Early American ora- tors understood the contextual nature and strategic uses of speech and writing as signs relating the individual body to the social body . Speaking from a range of cultural positions , they adapted that ...
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... authority " ( Declaring Independence : Jefferson , Natural Language , and the Culture of Performance [ Stanford , Calif . , 1993 ] , 20 , 35 , 54 ) . Nancy Ruttenberg traces the emergence of the imagery and practice of voice much ...
... authority " ( Declaring Independence : Jefferson , Natural Language , and the Culture of Performance [ Stanford , Calif . , 1993 ] , 20 , 35 , 54 ) . Nancy Ruttenberg traces the emergence of the imagery and practice of voice much ...
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... authority identified from time to time either with the textualized documents of writing or with the elu- sive presence of the voice . " 14 The " unstable representations " that Portelli finds in American literature first crystallized as ...
... authority identified from time to time either with the textualized documents of writing or with the elu- sive presence of the voice . " 14 The " unstable representations " that Portelli finds in American literature first crystallized as ...
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... authority . Less familiar to colonial theorists , but clearly visible in the dynamics between orator and audience , is the modern sense of power con- ceived of as strategic actions undertaken within a web of unequal and unstable social ...
... authority . Less familiar to colonial theorists , but clearly visible in the dynamics between orator and audience , is the modern sense of power con- ceived of as strategic actions undertaken within a web of unequal and unstable social ...
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... authority . The public speech of women was governed with particular rigor in the eighteenth century , and writing provided white women with their most ac- cessible avenue to public " voice . " For native Americans and African Americans ...
... authority . The public speech of women was governed with particular rigor in the eighteenth century , and writing provided white women with their most ac- cessible avenue to public " voice . " For native Americans and African Americans ...
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 |