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 xv
... relationships . Unprece- dented contacts between peoples from the three continents of Africa , Europe , and North America coincided with the invention of the printing press to make ver- bal forms into primary markers of cultural ...
... relationships . Unprece- dented contacts between peoples from the three continents of Africa , Europe , and North America coincided with the invention of the printing press to make ver- bal forms into primary markers of cultural ...
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... relationship between performance and Austin's performativity in " Performativity and Performance , " introduction to Parker and Sedgwick , eds . , Performativity and Performance ( New York , 1995 ) , 1-18 . Modern works that explore ...
... relationship between performance and Austin's performativity in " Performativity and Performance , " introduction to Parker and Sedgwick , eds . , Performativity and Performance ( New York , 1995 ) , 1-18 . Modern works that explore ...
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... relationship between verbal form and so- cial order is the story of the spread of writing and print . One narrative links print , Protestantism , and democratic nationalism to shape one of America's most trea- sured myths about itself ...
... relationship between verbal form and so- cial order is the story of the spread of writing and print . One narrative links print , Protestantism , and democratic nationalism to shape one of America's most trea- sured myths about itself ...
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... relationship between oral and literary forms to date ; see esp . " Dis- course in the Novel , " in Michael Holquist , ed . , The Dialogic Imagination : Four Essays , trans . Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist ( Austin , Tex . , 1981 ) ...
... relationship between oral and literary forms to date ; see esp . " Dis- course in the Novel , " in Michael Holquist , ed . , The Dialogic Imagination : Four Essays , trans . Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist ( Austin , Tex . , 1981 ) ...
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... relationship of seeking and desire rather than exclusion and polarization . Both orality and writing are capable of standing either for absence or for presence , for society and for the individual , for certainty and for doubt , for the ...
... relationship of seeking and desire rather than exclusion and polarization . Both orality and writing are capable of standing either for absence or for presence , for society and for the individual , for certainty and for doubt , for the ...
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 |