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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... sermon , accommo- dating those traditions to their changed circumstances . The native peoples who inhabited the continent had highly elaborated traditions of spoken eloquence that played central roles in religious life , government ...
... sermon , accommo- dating those traditions to their changed circumstances . The native peoples who inhabited the continent had highly elaborated traditions of spoken eloquence that played central roles in religious life , government ...
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... sermons , with the stability and publicity of one set against the immediacy and spiritual inward- ness of the other . Inspired by the relative freedom of the improvisational style , a significant number of evangelical women claimed the ...
... sermons , with the stability and publicity of one set against the immediacy and spiritual inward- ness of the other . Inspired by the relative freedom of the improvisational style , a significant number of evangelical women claimed the ...
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... In some cases , no such scrutiny took place . No one of these recording methods guarantees more than any of the others that the textual record captures the words actually spoken on that occasion . Sermons xxiv Introduction.
... In some cases , no such scrutiny took place . No one of these recording methods guarantees more than any of the others that the textual record captures the words actually spoken on that occasion . Sermons xxiv Introduction.
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... Sermons and speeches that were fully composed before they were delivered were commonly revised for pub- lication . Shorthand records of sermons or courtroom proceedings are not always fully accurate . Reconstructed speeches were shaped ...
... Sermons and speeches that were fully composed before they were delivered were commonly revised for pub- lication . Shorthand records of sermons or courtroom proceedings are not always fully accurate . Reconstructed speeches were shaped ...
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... sermons , and court 19. On the centrality of speech to the social community formed by English humanists , see Martin Elsky , Authorizing Words : Speech , Writing , and Print in the English Renaissance ( Ithaca , N.Y. , 1989 ) , 6. On ...
... sermons , and court 19. On the centrality of speech to the social community formed by English humanists , see Martin Elsky , Authorizing Words : Speech , Writing , and Print in the English Renaissance ( Ithaca , N.Y. , 1989 ) , 6. On ...
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 |
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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 |