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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... efforts to interpret them clearly . In contrast with the serene transparency that Har- riot attributes to Algonquian behavior at those moments when he reassures his readers of their assimilability , his narrative of the company's ...
... efforts to interpret them clearly . In contrast with the serene transparency that Har- riot attributes to Algonquian behavior at those moments when he reassures his readers of their assimilability , his narrative of the company's ...
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... efforts of Christian missionaries . ? Many missionaries , particularly Protestants , struggled to resolve the tension that Harriot's work reveals : though they might understand the printed Bible as foundational to their endeavor , the ...
... efforts of Christian missionaries . ? Many missionaries , particularly Protestants , struggled to resolve the tension that Harriot's work reveals : though they might understand the printed Bible as foundational to their endeavor , the ...
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... efforts left them sweating and breathless . He suggested the break- down of meaning and potential for violence when he characterized the speakers ' appearance as " exceeding angry or starke mad . " Smith reveals a similar threat of ...
... efforts left them sweating and breathless . He suggested the break- down of meaning and potential for violence when he characterized the speakers ' appearance as " exceeding angry or starke mad . " Smith reveals a similar threat of ...
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... efforts at colonization . The most famous of these English disasters was the Powhatan attack that almost wiped out the Virginia colony in 1622 , a result of persistent conflicts between the English settlers and the native inhabitants ...
... efforts at colonization . The most famous of these English disasters was the Powhatan attack that almost wiped out the Virginia colony in 1622 , a result of persistent conflicts between the English settlers and the native inhabitants ...
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... effort . Hooker worked the middle 33. Mather , Magnalia Christi Americana , I , 271 , 275 , 280 , 284. Benjamin Woodbridge com- pares Cotton to Moses in his elegy " Upon the Tomb of the Most Reverend Mr. John Cotton " ( Mather ...
... effort . Hooker worked the middle 33. Mather , Magnalia Christi Americana , I , 271 , 275 , 280 , 284. Benjamin Woodbridge com- pares Cotton to Moses in his elegy " Upon the Tomb of the Most Reverend Mr. John Cotton " ( Mather ...
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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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