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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Página xvi
... Dead : Circum- Atlantic Performance ( New York , 1996 ) ; David S. Shields , Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America ( Chapel Hill , N.C. , 1997 ) . on or freedom from text in oral performance . Preachers xvi : Introduction.
... Dead : Circum- Atlantic Performance ( New York , 1996 ) ; David S. Shields , Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America ( Chapel Hill , N.C. , 1997 ) . on or freedom from text in oral performance . Preachers xvi : Introduction.
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... Preachers and political orators sig- nified unmediated access to truth in extemporaneous speeches , or they drama- tized the stability of their spiritual or political intent by reading from a manuscript or referring to foundational ...
... Preachers and political orators sig- nified unmediated access to truth in extemporaneous speeches , or they drama- tized the stability of their spiritual or political intent by reading from a manuscript or referring to foundational ...
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... preacher's physical weakness or social insignifi- cance into spiritual authority . Less familiar to colonial theorists , but clearly visible in the dynamics between orator and audience , is the modern sense of power con- ceived of as ...
... preacher's physical weakness or social insignifi- cance into spiritual authority . Less familiar to colonial theorists , but clearly visible in the dynamics between orator and audience , is the modern sense of power con- ceived of as ...
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... preaching style provoked a clear articula- tion of the meanings attached to manuscript - based and improvised sermons , with the stability and publicity of one set against the immediacy and spiritual inward- ness of the other . Inspired ...
... preaching style provoked a clear articula- tion of the meanings attached to manuscript - based and improvised sermons , with the stability and publicity of one set against the immediacy and spiritual inward- ness of the other . Inspired ...
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... preaching signified contested theological commitments . The conflicts be- tween Anglican churchmen and Puritan reformers centered upon the symbolism of speech and text . Anglican authorities maintained that God's Word must be re- ceived ...
... preaching signified contested theological commitments . The conflicts be- tween Anglican churchmen and Puritan reformers centered upon the symbolism of speech and text . Anglican authorities maintained that God's Word must be re- ceived ...
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 |