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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... chaps . 1 , 2 ; Roger D. Abrahams , Singing the Master : The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South ( New York , 1992 ) . 4. Hendrick Aupaumut , A Narrative of an Embassy to the Western Indians ... , in Historical ...
... chaps . 1 , 2 ; Roger D. Abrahams , Singing the Master : The Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South ( New York , 1992 ) . 4. Hendrick Aupaumut , A Narrative of an Embassy to the Western Indians ... , in Historical ...
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... chap . 1 . With its emphasis on print culture as a central factor in the emergence of nation - states , Bene- dict ... chaps . 1 , 2 . which the transformative effects of the written and printed word Introduction : xvii.
... chap . 1 . With its emphasis on print culture as a central factor in the emergence of nation - states , Bene- dict ... chaps . 1 , 2 . which the transformative effects of the written and printed word Introduction : xvii.
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... chap . 1 . 13. Alessandro Portelli offers a magisterial discussion of the symbolism of verbal form in the American literary tradition in The Text and the Voice : Writing , Speaking , and Democracy in American Literature ( New York ...
... chap . 1 . 13. Alessandro Portelli offers a magisterial discussion of the symbolism of verbal form in the American literary tradition in The Text and the Voice : Writing , Speaking , and Democracy in American Literature ( New York ...
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... and oral performance for the poetry of the mid - twentieth century in From Modern to Contemporary : American Poetry , 1945– 1965 ( Chicago , 1984 ) , chap . 2 . force , compulsion . " Power for many colonial Americans xx : Introduction.
... and oral performance for the poetry of the mid - twentieth century in From Modern to Contemporary : American Poetry , 1945– 1965 ( Chicago , 1984 ) , chap . 2 . force , compulsion . " Power for many colonial Americans xx : Introduction.
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... chap . 4 , Lionel Trilling distinguishes between the pre - Romantic sincerity of public transparency and the post - Romantic authenticity of the unsocialized or unconscious mind . Barker - Benfield's work suggests that pre - Romantic ...
... chap . 4 , Lionel Trilling distinguishes between the pre - Romantic sincerity of public transparency and the post - Romantic authenticity of the unsocialized or unconscious mind . Barker - Benfield's work suggests that pre - Romantic ...
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 |