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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... nature of verbal symbolism shifted subtly over the colonial period . For the first century of colonization , British Americans imagined the rela- tionship between speech and text as a relatively static and absolute distinction that ...
... nature of verbal symbolism shifted subtly over the colonial period . For the first century of colonization , British Americans imagined the rela- tionship between speech and text as a relatively static and absolute distinction that ...
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... nature and strategic uses of speech and writing as signs relating the individual body to the social body . Speaking from a range of cultural positions , they adapted that system of symbols to their own ends . As a symbolic and ...
... nature and strategic uses of speech and writing as signs relating the individual body to the social body . Speaking from a range of cultural positions , they adapted that system of symbols to their own ends . As a symbolic and ...
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... Nature , Significance , and Social Context , rev . ed . ( Bloomington , Ind . , 1992 ) , 254–260 . Mikhail Bakhtin produced the most influential liter- ary critical work on the relationship between oral and literary forms to date ; see ...
... Nature , Significance , and Social Context , rev . ed . ( Bloomington , Ind . , 1992 ) , 254–260 . Mikhail Bakhtin produced the most influential liter- ary critical work on the relationship between oral and literary forms to date ; see ...
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... Natural Language , and the Culture of Performance [ Stanford , Calif . , 1993 ] , 20 , 35 , 54 ) . Nancy Ruttenberg traces the emergence of the imagery and practice of voice much earlier than either Looby or Fliegelman , to the Salem ...
... Natural Language , and the Culture of Performance [ Stanford , Calif . , 1993 ] , 20 , 35 , 54 ) . Nancy Ruttenberg traces the emergence of the imagery and practice of voice much earlier than either Looby or Fliegelman , to the Salem ...
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... nature , without guile or treachery , " echoing Harriot's earlier optimistic assertions of easy conquest , but he does so at a moment when English readers of exploration narratives had become skeptical of such hopeful signs.13 During ...
... nature , without guile or treachery , " echoing Harriot's earlier optimistic assertions of easy conquest , but he does so at a moment when English readers of exploration narratives had become skeptical of such hopeful signs.13 During ...
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 |