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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... Debates 200 ii . Performing the Presidency 213 Chapter Seven : Political Speech in the New Republic 233 i . Representative Speech 233 ii . Figures of Difference 246 Conclusion 267 Appendix : Traditions of the Ancients 271 Index 279 ...
... Debates 200 ii . Performing the Presidency 213 Chapter Seven : Political Speech in the New Republic 233 i . Representative Speech 233 ii . Figures of Difference 246 Conclusion 267 Appendix : Traditions of the Ancients 271 Index 279 ...
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... debate beween Hutchinson and Ipswich minister Nathaniel Ward over 2 Cor . 3 : 6 , see Hall , ed . , The Antinomian Controversy , 325–326 . The lineaments of Hutchinson's oppo- sitions between spirit and letter and between old and new ...
... debate beween Hutchinson and Ipswich minister Nathaniel Ward over 2 Cor . 3 : 6 , see Hall , ed . , The Antinomian Controversy , 325–326 . The lineaments of Hutchinson's oppo- sitions between spirit and letter and between old and new ...
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... debate over pulpit performance between Anglican au- thorities and their Puritan critics . But Anglican textual practices no longer defined the killing letter in the New England setting , and the symbol system of speech and text shifted ...
... debate over pulpit performance between Anglican au- thorities and their Puritan critics . But Anglican textual practices no longer defined the killing letter in the New England setting , and the symbol system of speech and text shifted ...
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... debates between the colony's ministers in 1636-1637 , the main source of tension proved to be conflicting conceptions of faith resting ultimately on the word's original meaning of persuasion ; see Gustafson , " Performing the Word ...
... debates between the colony's ministers in 1636-1637 , the main source of tension proved to be conflicting conceptions of faith resting ultimately on the word's original meaning of persuasion ; see Gustafson , " Performing the Word ...
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... debate over the nature of preaching - including its relationship to textual forms - and the preacher's social status . These remarks cut to the heart of the Puritan plain style . Perkins's characterization of the Puritan sermon's ...
... debate over the nature of preaching - including its relationship to textual forms - and the preacher's social status . These remarks cut to the heart of the Puritan plain style . Perkins's characterization of the Puritan sermon's ...
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 |