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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... divine agency transmuted the preacher's physical weakness or social insignifi- cance into spiritual authority . Less familiar to colonial theorists , but clearly visible in the dynamics between orator and audience , is the modern sense ...
... divine agency transmuted the preacher's physical weakness or social insignifi- cance into spiritual authority . Less familiar to colonial theorists , but clearly visible in the dynamics between orator and audience , is the modern sense ...
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... divine agency . Harriot's concluding " good hope " that they might be brought to " the imbracing of the trueth " reflects the persistent En- 210. Works like Cheyfitz's , including older scholarship such as Roy Harvey Pearce , The ...
... divine agency . Harriot's concluding " good hope " that they might be brought to " the imbracing of the trueth " reflects the persistent En- 210. Works like Cheyfitz's , including older scholarship such as Roy Harvey Pearce , The ...
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... divine order that required no socially restricted language skills such as knowledge of classical rhetoric or languages to understand.22 When William Perkins first formally defined the Puritan plain style 21. Elsky discusses Roger ...
... divine order that required no socially restricted language skills such as knowledge of classical rhetoric or languages to understand.22 When William Perkins first formally defined the Puritan plain style 21. Elsky discusses Roger ...
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... divine inspiration , Puritan preachers spoke extemporaneously , from memory , or with only an outline . Without a full text before them , they incor- porated spontaneous figures and observations , an experience they attributed to the ...
... divine inspiration , Puritan preachers spoke extemporaneously , from memory , or with only an outline . Without a full text before them , they incor- porated spontaneous figures and observations , an experience they attributed to the ...
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... divine grace without contamination characterized the Puritan conception of pulpit per- formance . Anglican pulpit orators foregrounded their own language both to lo- cate their sacred message in the context of human traditions and to ...
... divine grace without contamination characterized the Puritan conception of pulpit per- formance . Anglican pulpit orators foregrounded their own language both to lo- cate their sacred message in the context of human traditions and to ...
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 |