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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... emerge from the dissertation , and to his nephew and namesake Tobias Stephen Ginsburg , who was born as it was near- ing completion . The unexpected loss of Steve and the joy of Tobias's arrival mark every page for me . CONTENTS ...
... emerge from the dissertation , and to his nephew and namesake Tobias Stephen Ginsburg , who was born as it was near- ing completion . The unexpected loss of Steve and the joy of Tobias's arrival mark every page for me . CONTENTS ...
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... emerged as the first major form of ver- bal art in British North America because , as he said , " eloquence was ... Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South ( New York , 1992 ) . 4. Hendrick Aupaumut , A Narrative of ...
... emerged as the first major form of ver- bal art in British North America because , as he said , " eloquence was ... Emergence of African American Culture in the Plantation South ( New York , 1992 ) . 4. Hendrick Aupaumut , A Narrative of ...
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... emerged that understood the oral and textual bodies of language , not as fixed categories , but as figures for competing constructions of the social body . In what I call the performance semiotic of speech and text , claims to authen ...
... emerged that understood the oral and textual bodies of language , not as fixed categories , but as figures for competing constructions of the social body . In what I call the performance semiotic of speech and text , claims to authen ...
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... emergence of nation - states , Bene- dict Anderson's Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism , 2d ed . rev . ( London , 1991 ) offers a particularly subtle variation on the developmental narrative that ...
... emergence of nation - states , Bene- dict Anderson's Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism , 2d ed . rev . ( London , 1991 ) offers a particularly subtle variation on the developmental narrative that ...
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... emergence of the imagery and practice of voice much earlier than either Looby or Fliegelman , to the Salem witchcraft controversy and the Great Awakening . Ruttenberg insists upon the performative origins of democratic speech , locating ...
... emergence of the imagery and practice of voice much earlier than either Looby or Fliegelman , to the Salem witchcraft controversy and the Great Awakening . Ruttenberg insists upon the performative origins of democratic speech , locating ...
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 |