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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... spiritual career of African American missionary John Marrant . Con- verted by British evangelist George Whitefield about 1770 , young Marrant went " over the fence " into the wilderness of South Carolina to escape a corrupt society ...
... spiritual career of African American missionary John Marrant . Con- verted by British evangelist George Whitefield about 1770 , young Marrant went " over the fence " into the wilderness of South Carolina to escape a corrupt society ...
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... spiritual leadership , speakers enacted their competing claims to au- thenticity and power through the symbolic use of speech and text . From Puritan patriarchs John Winthrop and John Eliot to Great Awakening adversaries Charles Chauncy ...
... spiritual leadership , speakers enacted their competing claims to au- thenticity and power through the symbolic use of speech and text . From Puritan patriarchs John Winthrop and John Eliot to Great Awakening adversaries Charles Chauncy ...
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... spiritual or political intent by reading from a manuscript or referring to foundational documents . Verbal form manifested social tensions produced by cultural difference . The orator made these tensions visible as he or she performed ...
... spiritual or political intent by reading from a manuscript or referring to foundational documents . Verbal form manifested social tensions produced by cultural difference . The orator made these tensions visible as he or she performed ...
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... spiritual insight and its attendant social privileges to inter- cultural conflicts and allegiances , to imperial and national order . These diverse settings produced a variety of power relations . My examination of power incorpo- rates ...
... spiritual insight and its attendant social privileges to inter- cultural conflicts and allegiances , to imperial and national order . These diverse settings produced a variety of power relations . My examination of power incorpo- rates ...
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... 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 strategic actions undertaken within a web of unequal and ...
... 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 strategic actions undertaken within a web of unequal 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 |