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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... claims to au- thenticity and power through the symbolic use of speech and text . From Puritan patriarchs John Winthrop and John Eliot to Great Awakening adversaries Charles Chauncy and Gilbert Tennent , to Revolutionary leaders James ...
... claims to au- thenticity and power through the symbolic use of speech and text . From Puritan patriarchs John Winthrop and John Eliot to Great Awakening adversaries Charles Chauncy and Gilbert Tennent , to Revolutionary leaders James ...
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... claims to authen- ticity and relations of power were given form and meaning through the reliance 7. In The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism ( Chicago , 1987 ) , 3-18 , Geoffrey Galt Har- pham explores the symbolic meanings ...
... claims to authen- ticity and relations of power were given form and meaning through the reliance 7. In The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism ( Chicago , 1987 ) , 3-18 , Geoffrey Galt Har- pham explores the symbolic meanings ...
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... claims to authenticity . Spiritual au- thenticity derives from the speaker's relationship to divine authority as it ... claim to represent . The ethic of transparency in the late eighteenth century mandated the speaker's emotional ...
... claims to authenticity . Spiritual au- thenticity derives from the speaker's relationship to divine authority as it ... claim to represent . The ethic of transparency in the late eighteenth century mandated the speaker's emotional ...
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... claimed the right to exercise their voices more publicly . The silencing of their public speech can be traced through the shift- ing symbolism of language and gender in the writings and sermons of Jonathan Edwards . The extemporaneous ...
... claimed the right to exercise their voices more publicly . The silencing of their public speech can be traced through the shift- ing symbolism of language and gender in the writings and sermons of Jonathan Edwards . The extemporaneous ...
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... claimed , for " by howe much they upon due consideration shall finde our manner of knowledges and craftes to exceede theirs in perfection , and speed for doing or execution , by so much the more is it probable that they shoulde ... have ...
... claimed , for " by howe much they upon due consideration shall finde our manner of knowledges and craftes to exceede theirs in perfection , and speed for doing or execution , by so much the more is it probable that they shoulde ... have ...
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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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