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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... John L. and Ellen Gustafson have been unfailingly supportive . Their love and confidence are invaluable . Allene Gustaf- son has nurtured my historical sense with her experience of nearly a century and nourished me with her affection . John ...
... John L. and Ellen Gustafson have been unfailingly supportive . Their love and confidence are invaluable . Allene Gustaf- son has nurtured my historical sense with her experience of nearly a century and nourished me with her affection . John ...
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... John Quincy Adams The Golden Age of American Oratory had already begun when John Quincy Adams described rhetorical skill as a form of power in his 1805 inaugural address as the first Boylston Chair of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard ...
... John Quincy Adams The Golden Age of American Oratory had already begun when John Quincy Adams described rhetorical skill as a form of power in his 1805 inaugural address as the first Boylston Chair of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard ...
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... John Winthrop and John Eliot to Great Awakening adversaries Charles Chauncy and Gilbert Tennent , to Revolutionary leaders James Otis and George Washington , Euro - Americans made the analogy between verbal forms and social structures ...
... John Winthrop and John Eliot to Great Awakening adversaries Charles Chauncy and Gilbert Tennent , to Revolutionary leaders James Otis and George Washington , Euro - Americans made the analogy between verbal forms and social structures ...
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... John Marrant soon learned to rearticulate these signs of dif- ference . They presented a “ savage " speaker whose oral heritage endowed him or her with a greater authenticity than textbound white orators . At the same time , they ...
... John Marrant soon learned to rearticulate these signs of dif- ference . They presented a “ savage " speaker whose oral heritage endowed him or her with a greater authenticity than textbound white orators . At the same time , they ...
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... John Marrant elaborated Occom's figure of a potent savage speaker through his identification with and conversion of a Cherokee com- munity . The performance semiotic that was elaborated in sacred oratory during the Great Awakening had ...
... John Marrant elaborated Occom's figure of a potent savage speaker through his identification with and conversion of a Cherokee com- munity . The performance semiotic that was elaborated in sacred oratory during the Great Awakening had ...
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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