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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... America 1 i . Textual Possession and Oral Resistance 1 ii . Renaissance Theories of Language and the Place of the Pulpit 12 iii . Bodies of Language and the Gendered Social Body 19 iv . Native Speech and the Discipline of Text 33 ...
... America 1 i . Textual Possession and Oral Resistance 1 ii . Renaissance Theories of Language and the Place of the Pulpit 12 iii . Bodies of Language and the Gendered Social Body 19 iv . Native Speech and the Discipline of Text 33 ...
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... native American , and African cultures that defined major aspects of the colonial experience . European colonists in North America drew on the traditions of classical and Christian rhetoric newly invigorated by the rise of humanism and ...
... native American , and African cultures that defined major aspects of the colonial experience . European colonists in North America drew on the traditions of classical and Christian rhetoric newly invigorated by the rise of humanism and ...
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... native Americans largely unfamiliar with alphabetic literacy . Hierarchies of literacy and textual knowledge already ... American Jeremiad ( Madison , Wis . , 1978 ) ; Mitchell Robert Breitwieser , Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin : The ...
... native Americans largely unfamiliar with alphabetic literacy . Hierarchies of literacy and textual knowledge already ... American Jeremiad ( Madison , Wis . , 1978 ) ; Mitchell Robert Breitwieser , Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin : The ...
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... American and native American performance traditions alongside those of Euro - Americans and when we pay attention to the performative force of women's public speech . Viewed in relation to native American diplomatic eloquence , for ...
... American and native American performance traditions alongside those of Euro - Americans and when we pay attention to the performative force of women's public speech . Viewed in relation to native American diplomatic eloquence , for ...
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... American literature , Italian critic Alessandro Portelli aptly notes , " The ... American Indian Texts ( Bloomington , Ind . , 1991 ) . 14. Portelli , Text ... America ( Chicago , 1998 ) , Daniel Belgrad analyzes twentieth - century ...
... American literature , Italian critic Alessandro Portelli aptly notes , " The ... American Indian Texts ( Bloomington , Ind . , 1991 ) . 14. Portelli , Text ... America ( Chicago , 1998 ) , Daniel Belgrad analyzes twentieth - century ...
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 |