Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early AmericaUNC Press Books, 2012 M12 1 - 320 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 flourished in British America and the early republic from colonization through 1800. She demonstrates that, in the American crucible of cultures, contact and conflict among Europeans, native Americans, and Africans gave particular significance and complexity to the uses of the spoken word. Gustafson develops what she calls the performance semiotic of speech and text as a tool for comprehending the rich traditions of early American oratory. Embodied in the delivery of speeches, she argues, were complex projections of power and authenticity that were rooted in or challenged text-based claims of authority. Examining oratorical performances as varied as treaty negotiations between native and British Americans, the eloquence of evangelical women during the Great Awakening, and the founding fathers' debates over the Constitution, Gustafson explores how orators employed the shifting symbolism of speech and text to imbue their voices with power. |
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... Boston Massacre tradition. In his speech at the trial of the British soldiers, John Adams sought to discipline radical popular voice by making it savage when he scapegoated Boston Massacre victim Crispus Attucks. Later, the Boston ...
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Contenido
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Gender in Performance | 40 |
The Savage Speaker Transformed | 75 |
Negotiating Power | 111 |
The Oratorical Public Culture of Revolutionary America | 140 |
The Body of the Nation | 171 |
Forms of State | 200 |
Political Speech in the New Republic | 233 |
Conclusion | 267 |
Traditions of the Ancients | 271 |
Index | 279 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early America Sandra M. Gustafson Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early America Sandra M. Gustafson Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
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