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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... voice of eloquence will not be heard in vain.1 The training that Adams offered his students would set American education apart from European societies where " even when they studied RHETORIC , as a theory , they neglected ORATORY , as ...
... voice of eloquence will not be heard in vain.1 The training that Adams offered his students would set American education apart from European societies where " even when they studied RHETORIC , as a theory , they neglected ORATORY , as ...
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... voice and text in the colonial and early republican periods . The relevant works not cited elsewhere in this introduction include Sacvan Bercovitch , The American Jeremiad ( Madison , Wis . , 1978 ) ; Mitchell Robert Breitwieser ...
... voice and text in the colonial and early republican periods . The relevant works not cited elsewhere in this introduction include Sacvan Bercovitch , The American Jeremiad ( Madison , Wis . , 1978 ) ; Mitchell Robert Breitwieser ...
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... voice . These four terms can be construed as two opposed pairs . Text that is privileged for its permanence and stability is set against the ruptures effected by demonic speech . When the powers of the living voice are celebrated , they ...
... voice . These four terms can be construed as two opposed pairs . Text that is privileged for its permanence and stability is set against the ruptures effected by demonic speech . When the powers of the living voice are celebrated , they ...
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... Voices : Lit- erature and the Phonotext ( Berkeley , Calif . , 1990 ) offers an insightful analysis of the silent oral performance of text , or phonemic reading , as it affects literary works . In Writing in the New Nation : Prose ...
... Voices : Lit- erature and the Phonotext ( Berkeley , Calif . , 1990 ) offers an insightful analysis of the silent oral performance of text , or phonemic reading , as it affects literary works . In Writing in the New Nation : Prose ...
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... voice embodied a certain legitimating charisma that print could not " ( 4 , 5 ) . Whereas Looby finds evidence of the persistence of voice in printed texts , Jay Fliegelman describes the culturally central work of speech performance in ...
... voice embodied a certain legitimating charisma that print could not " ( 4 , 5 ) . Whereas Looby finds evidence of the persistence of voice in printed texts , Jay Fliegelman describes the culturally central work of speech performance in ...
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 |