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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... converted the Cherokee " king , " who saved Marrant's life and made him a powerful figure in the village.5 As the careers of Aupaumut and Marrant suggest , oratory proved so vital to the dynamic world of the colonies and early republic ...
... converted the Cherokee " king , " who saved Marrant's life and made him a powerful figure in the village.5 As the careers of Aupaumut and Marrant suggest , oratory proved so vital to the dynamic world of the colonies and early republic ...
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... conversion of a Cherokee com- munity . The performance semiotic that was elaborated in sacred oratory during the Great Awakening had important parallels and adaptations in the secular traditions of political and diplomatic eloquence ...
... conversion of a Cherokee com- munity . The performance semiotic that was elaborated in sacred oratory during the Great Awakening had important parallels and adaptations in the secular traditions of political and diplomatic eloquence ...
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... conversion . Yet language dif- ferences make native comprehension of the Christian content unlikely ; perhaps the Algonquians were interested in the variety of English oral forms , a possibility that Harriot does not explore . Instead ...
... conversion . Yet language dif- ferences make native comprehension of the Christian content unlikely ; perhaps the Algonquians were interested in the variety of English oral forms , a possibility that Harriot does not explore . Instead ...
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... convert to Christianity and English iden- tity . Yet he incorporates evidence of Indian appropriations and transformations of these new technologies , casting them as forms of resistance to God even as he records English efforts to ...
... convert to Christianity and English iden- tity . Yet he incorporates evidence of Indian appropriations and transformations of these new technologies , casting them as forms of resistance to God even as he records English efforts to ...
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... converted while he was a rising pulpit star at Cam- bridge University . " That which first made him famous in Cambridge , " Cotton's biographer John Norton writes , was his Funeral Oration for Doctor Some , Master of Peter - house ; so ...
... converted while he was a rising pulpit star at Cam- bridge University . " That which first made him famous in Cambridge , " Cotton's biographer John Norton writes , was his Funeral Oration for Doctor Some , Master of Peter - house ; so ...
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
Adams's African American American Revolution Ames's Antinomian audience Aupaumut authenticity authority Benjamin Franklin body Boston Massacre Brainerd British Cambridge Canassatego century chap Chapel Hill Christian claims colonial colonists Constitution conversion Cotton cultural David Brainerd debates Deborah Sampson described discusses divine early Edwards's eloquence emotional England English European evangelical figure Fisher Ames forms Gannett gender gesture History Hutchinson Ibid insisted Iroquois James Otis Jefferson John Adams John Marrant Jonathan Edwards language leaders letter linguistic literacy Mahican Marrant Massachusetts ministers missionary narrative native American negotiations oral orator oratory Otis's Patrick Henry patriot performance semiotic political popular preachers preaching pulpit Puritan republican Revolutionary rhetorical role sacred Samson Occom Sarah savage Scripture sermon social society soldiers speak speaker speech and text spiritual style symbolic textual Thomas tion tradition transformed verbal Virginia voice Whitefield William women writ writing Writs of Assistance written York
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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 |