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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... create a powerful new set of oral genres . In the American crucible of cul- tures , these oratorical traditions collided , merged , and polarized to create vibrant traditions of verbal art.3 Hendrick Aupaumut's career as a diplomat for ...
... create a powerful new set of oral genres . In the American crucible of cul- tures , these oratorical traditions collided , merged , and polarized to create vibrant traditions of verbal art.3 Hendrick Aupaumut's career as a diplomat for ...
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... created a spectacle of sincerity . As forms of emotional authenticity , sincerity and sensi- bility helped to redefine power from domination to consent . The orator's display of emotion staged a wide range of effects that focused on the ...
... created a spectacle of sincerity . As forms of emotional authenticity , sincerity and sensi- bility helped to redefine power from domination to consent . The orator's display of emotion staged a wide range of effects that focused on the ...
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... create cultural and social distinctions . The novel circumstances of colonial life exposed English set- tlers to native eloquence while loosening the restrictions on the speech of reli- gious dissenters such as Anne Hutchinson . The ...
... create cultural and social distinctions . The novel circumstances of colonial life exposed English set- tlers to native eloquence while loosening the restrictions on the speech of reli- gious dissenters such as Anne Hutchinson . The ...
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... mirror and create social order through the staging of authenticity and power in the perfor- mances that shaped the cultures of early America . Eloquence Is Power Prologue Language and Power in Seventeenth - Introduction : xxv.
... mirror and create social order through the staging of authenticity and power in the perfor- mances that shaped the cultures of early America . Eloquence Is Power Prologue Language and Power in Seventeenth - Introduction : xxv.
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... created before Eve - with an emphasis on the unreliability of oral tradition , echoing Christianity's symbolic linkage of female reproductive power with disruptive voice . by the Use of letters and Writing , which others 2 : Language ...
... created before Eve - with an emphasis on the unreliability of oral tradition , echoing Christianity's symbolic linkage of female reproductive power with disruptive voice . by the Use of letters and Writing , which others 2 : Language ...
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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Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary Scott E. Casper,Joanne D. Chaison,Jeffrey D. Groves Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |