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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... imagined triumphing over the dead letter . In performance , this doubled dy- namic of language both emerges as a set of mutually constituting symbolic cate- gories and produces speech and text as performatives that signify through the ...
... imagined triumphing over the dead letter . In performance , this doubled dy- namic of language both emerges as a set of mutually constituting symbolic cate- gories and produces speech and text as performatives that signify through the ...
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... 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 imagines the spread of print as the foundation of ...
... 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 imagines the spread of print as the foundation of ...
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... Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism , 2d ed . rev . ( London , 1991 ) , 44-45 . 26. See Mitchell , English Pulpit Oratory , 51. On the humanistic use of " sermo " to identify " natural language and ...
... Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism , 2d ed . rev . ( London , 1991 ) , 44-45 . 26. See Mitchell , English Pulpit Oratory , 51. On the humanistic use of " sermo " to identify " natural language and ...
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... imagined grace as a spontaneous transforma- tion of the soul largely uninfluenced by clerical interventions . At the core of the controversy , the two groups disputed the forms of ministerial performance and authority . Boston matron ...
... imagined grace as a spontaneous transforma- tion of the soul largely uninfluenced by clerical interventions . At the core of the controversy , the two groups disputed the forms of ministerial performance and authority . Boston matron ...
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... imagining it as a form of impregnation resembling the Virgin Mary's experience as the Mother of God . We should not underestimate Hutchinson's rhetorical sophistication or her awareness of the threat she posed . The pervasive language ...
... imagining it as a form of impregnation resembling the Virgin Mary's experience as the Mother of God . We should not underestimate Hutchinson's rhetorical sophistication or her awareness of the threat she posed . The pervasive language ...
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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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 |