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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... expression may attach different values to textually driven change , either celebrating the developments attributed to writing and print or de- ploring them . But they all share a teleological understanding of language in which textual ...
... expression may attach different values to textually driven change , either celebrating the developments attributed to writing and print or de- ploring them . But they all share a teleological understanding of language in which textual ...
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... expression available to all regardless of educational level . Immediacy and accessibility are not intrinsic to the spoken word , however , but dependent on specific institutional forms and modes of address . Elite classical rhetoric was ...
... expression available to all regardless of educational level . Immediacy and accessibility are not intrinsic to the spoken word , however , but dependent on specific institutional forms and modes of address . Elite classical rhetoric was ...
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... expressions of the Miwoks ' desire for English domination , the account hinges on a moment of imperfect communication ( " if wee had understood them " ) that has inexplicably been rendered transparent . Circumventing the problems of ...
... expressions of the Miwoks ' desire for English domination , the account hinges on a moment of imperfect communication ( " if wee had understood them " ) that has inexplicably been rendered transparent . Circumventing the problems of ...
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... expression to his emphasis on Scripture - as - text . His grandson Cotton Mather figured his grandfather's physical presence in textual terms , describing his “ clear , fair , sanguine complexion " as a " prosopography " that had in it ...
... expression to his emphasis on Scripture - as - text . His grandson Cotton Mather figured his grandfather's physical presence in textual terms , describing his “ clear , fair , sanguine complexion " as a " prosopography " that had in it ...
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... expressions , as the old ora- tors would usually ascribe unto a special assistance of Heaven ... but the rise of this fluency in him , was the divine relish which he had of the things to be spo- ken , the sacred panting of his holy soul ...
... expressions , as the old ora- tors would usually ascribe unto a special assistance of Heaven ... but the rise of this fluency in him , was the divine relish which he had of the things to be spo- ken , the sacred panting of his holy soul ...
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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Referencias a este libro
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 |