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 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 35
Página xiv
... linguistic forms to create a powerful new set of oral genres . In the American crucible of cul- tures , these oratorical traditions collided , merged , and polarized to create vibrant traditions of verbal art.3 Hendrick Aupaumut's ...
... linguistic forms to create a powerful new set of oral genres . In the American crucible of cul- tures , these oratorical traditions collided , merged , and polarized to create vibrant traditions of verbal art.3 Hendrick Aupaumut's ...
Página xvi
... linguistics " in the Christian society of the late Roman Empire . See also Appendix , below . My use of the term performative is an adaptation of J. L. Austin's concept of the performative utterance , developed in How to Do Things with ...
... linguistics " in the Christian society of the late Roman Empire . See also Appendix , below . My use of the term performative is an adaptation of J. L. Austin's concept of the performative utterance , developed in How to Do Things with ...
Página xix
... linguistic form.13 Writing about the symbolism of cago , 1996 ) , Christopher Looby notes the central role that images of a nation " spoken into being " play in the literature of the early republic and calls attention to the fact that ...
... linguistic form.13 Writing about the symbolism of cago , 1996 ) , Christopher Looby notes the central role that images of a nation " spoken into being " play in the literature of the early republic and calls attention to the fact that ...
Página 15
... linguistic ascesis rejecting “ Philosophie , or fables , or lying Legends . . . poeticall fictions , Thalmudical dreams , Schoolmens quiddities , Popish decrees , or humane consti- tutions or . . . the fine ringing sentences of the ...
... linguistic ascesis rejecting “ Philosophie , or fables , or lying Legends . . . poeticall fictions , Thalmudical dreams , Schoolmens quiddities , Popish decrees , or humane consti- tutions or . . . the fine ringing sentences of the ...
Página 16
... linguistic reform , see Larzer Ziff , Puritanism in America : New Culture in a New World ( New York , 1973 ) , 3–5 . I share William Haller's view of the reciprocal importance of speech and print expressed in The Rise of Puritanism ...
... linguistic reform , see Larzer Ziff , Puritanism in America : New Culture in a New World ( New York , 1973 ) , 3–5 . I share William Haller's view of the reciprocal importance of speech and print expressed in The Rise of Puritanism ...
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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
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 |