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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... Language and Power in Seventeenth - Century British America 1 i . Textual Possession and Oral Resistance 1 ii . Renaissance Theories of Language and the Place of the Pulpit 12 iii . Bodies of Language and the Gendered Social Body 19 iv ...
... Language and Power in Seventeenth - Century British America 1 i . Textual Possession and Oral Resistance 1 ii . Renaissance Theories of Language and the Place of the Pulpit 12 iii . Bodies of Language and the Gendered Social Body 19 iv ...
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... language and the burden of textual precedent . Awakening from her long sleep , the muse of eloquence " found her child , Persuasion , manacled and pinioned by the letter of the law " and " beheld an image of herself , stammering in ...
... language and the burden of textual precedent . Awakening from her long sleep , the muse of eloquence " found her child , Persuasion , manacled and pinioned by the letter of the law " and " beheld an image of herself , stammering in ...
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... language : the dead letter mirrors and disrupts stable text while demonic speech mocks the living voice . These four terms can be construed as two opposed pairs . Text that is privileged for its permanence and stability is set against ...
... language : the dead letter mirrors and disrupts stable text while demonic speech mocks the living voice . These four terms can be construed as two opposed pairs . Text that is privileged for its permanence and stability is set against ...
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... language . The most famil- iar narrative purporting to explain the relationship between verbal form and so- cial order is the story of the spread of writing and print . One narrative links print , Protestantism , and democratic ...
... language . The most famil- iar narrative purporting to explain the relationship between verbal form and so- cial order is the story of the spread of writing and print . One narrative links print , Protestantism , and democratic ...
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... language in which textual forms displace oral ones . Even the most sophisticated accounts of print culture align modernity with the spread of print and its alleged displacement of oral genres . Such accounts ignore the lively tradition ...
... language in which textual forms displace oral ones . Even the most sophisticated accounts of print culture align modernity with the spread of print and its alleged displacement of oral genres . Such accounts ignore the lively tradition ...
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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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