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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... thought . The transatlantic interest in native American oratory was one feature of classi- cal republicanism , as British Americans accommodated the speech traditions of the Iroquois League in the treaty councils of the early eighteenth ...
... thought . The transatlantic interest in native American oratory was one feature of classi- cal republicanism , as British Americans accommodated the speech traditions of the Iroquois League in the treaty councils of the early eighteenth ...
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... Thought and Culture , 1521-1680 ( Boston , 1989 ) , chap . 2 . 3. Harriot , Briefe and True Report , 25-26 . The moment at which Harriot interrupts his ac- count with this reflection is worth noting . He has just remarked , " They say a ...
... Thought and Culture , 1521-1680 ( Boston , 1989 ) , chap . 2 . 3. Harriot , Briefe and True Report , 25-26 . The moment at which Harriot interrupts his ac- count with this reflection is worth noting . He has just remarked , " They say a ...
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... thought of Jack Goody , Ian Watt , and Walter Ong , see Jill Lepore , The Name of War : King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity ( New York , 1998 ) , 26–28 . Harriot's and Purchas's ideological investment in literacy as a ...
... thought of Jack Goody , Ian Watt , and Walter Ong , see Jill Lepore , The Name of War : King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity ( New York , 1998 ) , 26–28 . Harriot's and Purchas's ideological investment in literacy as a ...
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... Thought and the Arts , rev . ed . ( Princeton , N.J. , 1990 ) , 9-10 . On Renaissance rhetoric and eloquence as tools of imperial domi- nation , see Cheyfitz , The Poetics of Imperialism . On the relationship between the Renaissance ...
... Thought and the Arts , rev . ed . ( Princeton , N.J. , 1990 ) , 9-10 . On Renaissance rhetoric and eloquence as tools of imperial domi- nation , see Cheyfitz , The Poetics of Imperialism . On the relationship between the Renaissance ...
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... thought and preparation . Theirs was an art that disguised its own artifice , producing an effect of immediacy and transparency that became the performative sign of au- thentic spiritual power.26 John Cotton's preaching career ...
... thought and preparation . Theirs was an art that disguised its own artifice , producing an effect of immediacy and transparency that became the performative sign of au- thentic spiritual power.26 John Cotton's preaching career ...
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 |
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