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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... appeared in print . Other sources in- clude transcripts and descriptions of the speech performances that composed the Antinomian Controversy , the Northampton revivals , the Lancaster treaty of 1744 , James Otis's and Patrick Henry's ...
... appeared in print . Other sources in- clude transcripts and descriptions of the speech performances that composed the Antinomian Controversy , the Northampton revivals , the Lancaster treaty of 1744 , James Otis's and Patrick Henry's ...
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... appearance as " exceeding angry or starke mad . " Smith reveals a similar threat of violence lurking within the native speaker's performance when he exposes Pow- hatan's eminently reasonable appeal for physical comfort as a mask for ...
... appearance as " exceeding angry or starke mad . " Smith reveals a similar threat of violence lurking within the native speaker's performance when he exposes Pow- hatan's eminently reasonable appeal for physical comfort as a mask for ...
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... appeared six years after the events in Virginia , its interpretive framework for understanding New World encounters was outdated and implausible . Especially in these circumstances , Drake's depart- ing acts of possession — renaming the ...
... appeared six years after the events in Virginia , its interpretive framework for understanding New World encounters was outdated and implausible . Especially in these circumstances , Drake's depart- ing acts of possession — renaming the ...
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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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