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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... Figures of Difference 246 Conclusion 267 Appendix : Traditions of the Ancients 271 Index 279 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Reverend Jonathan Edwards 63 Figure 2. Mrs. x : Contents.
... Figures of Difference 246 Conclusion 267 Appendix : Traditions of the Ancients 271 Index 279 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Reverend Jonathan Edwards 63 Figure 2. Mrs. x : Contents.
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... Figure 2. Mrs. Jonathan Edwards 68 Figure 3. The Reverend Samson Occom 93 Figure 4. Samson Occom 95 Figure 5. Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row , Emperour of the Six Nations 113 Figure 6. Title page , 1744 Treaty of Lancaster 120 Figure 7. Page 3 ...
... Figure 2. Mrs. Jonathan Edwards 68 Figure 3. The Reverend Samson Occom 93 Figure 4. Samson Occom 95 Figure 5. Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row , Emperour of the Six Nations 113 Figure 6. Title page , 1744 Treaty of Lancaster 120 Figure 7. Page 3 ...
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... figure constructions of the social body in oratori- cal performance . The nature of verbal symbolism shifted subtly over the colonial period . For the first century of colonization , British Americans imagined the rela- tionship between ...
... figure constructions of the social body in oratori- cal performance . The nature of verbal symbolism shifted subtly over the colonial period . For the first century of colonization , British Americans imagined the rela- tionship between ...
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... figures of speech and text in African American literature ; David Murray , Forked Tongues : Speech , Writing , and Representation in North American Indian Texts ( Bloomington , Ind . , 1991 ) . 14. Portelli , Text and the Voice , xiii ...
... figures of speech and text in African American literature ; David Murray , Forked Tongues : Speech , Writing , and Representation in North American Indian Texts ( Bloomington , Ind . , 1991 ) . 14. Portelli , Text and the Voice , xiii ...
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... figure of the authentic savage speaker is evident in two modern discussions of the importance of oral tradition by influential native American writers . Describ- ing " Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective , " Leslie ...
... figure of the authentic savage speaker is evident in two modern discussions of the importance of oral tradition by influential native American writers . Describ- ing " Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective , " Leslie ...
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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