Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early AmericaUNC Press Books, 2000 - 287 страници 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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... English - speaking world of the eighteenth century , when power was understood as the ability to con- trol others . Bernard Bailyn notes that , during this era , " Power ' . . . meant the dominion of some men over others , the human ...
... English - speaking world of the eighteenth century , when power was understood as the ability to con- trol others . Bernard Bailyn notes that , during this era , " Power ' . . . meant the dominion of some men over others , the human ...
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... English sensibility in The Culture of Sensibility : Sex and Society in Eighteenth - Century Britain ( Chicago , 1992 ) . Fliegel- man analyzes the relationship between sensibility , oratory , and consensual authority in Declar- ing ...
... English sensibility in The Culture of Sensibility : Sex and Society in Eighteenth - Century Britain ( Chicago , 1992 ) . Fliegel- man analyzes the relationship between sensibility , oratory , and consensual authority in Declar- ing ...
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... English set- tlers to native eloquence while loosening the restrictions on the speech of reli- gious dissenters such as Anne Hutchinson . The response to both situations was the same : textual discipline that devalued native American ...
... English set- tlers to native eloquence while loosening the restrictions on the speech of reli- gious dissenters such as Anne Hutchinson . The response to both situations was the same : textual discipline that devalued native American ...
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... English ethnography , the distinctions between literate and oral societies provided a major tool for pro- jecting English domination over native communities . According to Harriot , the 1. For an outline of a transformation in the ...
... English ethnography , the distinctions between literate and oral societies provided a major tool for pro- jecting English domination over native communities . According to Harriot , the 1. For an outline of a transformation in the ...
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... English readers that Algonquian " wit " and ingenuity made such technologies valuable tools of domination . The natives would readily recognize the pragmatic advantages of English " craftes , sciences and artes " and come to accept them ...
... English readers that Algonquian " wit " and ingenuity made such technologies valuable tools of domination . The natives would readily recognize the pragmatic advantages of English " craftes , sciences and artes " and come to accept them ...
Съдържание
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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