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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... actions undertaken within a web of unequal and unstable social relations . Michel Foucault articulates this meaning of power , identifying it as " the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particu- lar society ...
... actions undertaken within a web of unequal and unstable social relations . Michel Foucault articulates this meaning of power , identifying it as " the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particu- lar society ...
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... actions as evi- dence of " their hungrie desire of that knowledge " that he promised them the book contained , yet that their illiteracy prevented them from acquiring . Figuring na- tive uses of the Book to be forms of exclusion and ...
... actions as evi- dence of " their hungrie desire of that knowledge " that he promised them the book contained , yet that their illiteracy prevented them from acquiring . Figuring na- tive uses of the Book to be forms of exclusion and ...
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... action embodied in the figure of the orator.19 Sir Thomas Elyot's The Boke Named the Governour ( 1531 ) , the first English- language treatise on moral philosophy and the character of the good ruler , por- trays an important role for ...
... action embodied in the figure of the orator.19 Sir Thomas Elyot's The Boke Named the Governour ( 1531 ) , the first English- language treatise on moral philosophy and the character of the good ruler , por- trays an important role for ...
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... action , commonly an hour , and sometimes two houres together . Like other European observers at such assemblies , Williams remarks on the im- pressive and emphatic eloquence of native speakers , their stamina in highly physi- cal ...
... action , commonly an hour , and sometimes two houres together . Like other European observers at such assemblies , Williams remarks on the im- pressive and emphatic eloquence of native speakers , their stamina in highly physi- cal ...
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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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