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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... Savage " Speaker Transformed 75 i . Cultural Hybridism in Evangelical Oratory 75 ii . Competing Words 78 iii . Samson Occom's Pentecostal Indian Speech 90 iv . John Marrant , " Savage " Speaker 101 Chapter Three : Negotiating Power 111 ...
... Savage " Speaker Transformed 75 i . Cultural Hybridism in Evangelical Oratory 75 ii . Competing Words 78 iii . Samson Occom's Pentecostal Indian Speech 90 iv . John Marrant , " Savage " Speaker 101 Chapter Three : Negotiating Power 111 ...
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... savage " or " enthusiast . " Beginning with the Salem witchcraft crisis and the shifts in imperial relations in the 1690s , and achieving full theorization in the revivals of the 1740s , a complex system of meaning emerged that ...
... savage " or " enthusiast . " Beginning with the Salem witchcraft crisis and the shifts in imperial relations in the 1690s , and achieving full theorization in the revivals of the 1740s , a complex system of meaning emerged that ...
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... savage or reviled him as an agent of Satan . Black and Indian orators such as Iroquois leader Canassatego and evangelical missionaries Samson Occom and John Marrant soon learned to rearticulate these signs of dif- ference . They ...
... savage or reviled him as an agent of Satan . Black and Indian orators such as Iroquois leader Canassatego and evangelical missionaries Samson Occom and John Marrant soon learned to rearticulate these signs of dif- ference . They ...
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... savage speaker to present himself as an Indian orator of Pentecostal power . African American missionary John Marrant elaborated Occom's figure of a potent savage speaker through his identification with and conversion of a Cherokee com ...
... savage speaker to present himself as an Indian orator of Pentecostal power . African American missionary John Marrant elaborated Occom's figure of a potent savage speaker through his identification with and conversion of a Cherokee com ...
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... savage when he scapegoated Boston Mas- sacre victim Crispus Attucks . Later , the Boston Massacre orators established the authority of the whig leadership through their display of physical courage in the face of hostile auditors and ...
... savage when he scapegoated Boston Mas- sacre victim Crispus Attucks . Later , the Boston Massacre orators established the authority of the whig leadership through their display of physical courage in the face of hostile auditors and ...
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
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
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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 |