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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... leader of his Mahican community , and preserver of Mahican traditions , Aupaumut envisioned his role as ambassador to the northwest Indian nations as an extension of ancient Mahican traditions of diplomacy . Negotiating on behalf of the ...
... leader of his Mahican community , and preserver of Mahican traditions , Aupaumut envisioned his role as ambassador to the northwest Indian nations as an extension of ancient Mahican traditions of diplomacy . Negotiating on behalf of the ...
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... leadership , speakers enacted their competing claims to au- thenticity and power through the symbolic use of speech and text ... leaders James Otis and George Washington , Euro - Americans made the analogy between verbal forms and social ...
... leadership , speakers enacted their competing claims to au- thenticity and power through the symbolic use of speech and text ... leaders James Otis and George Washington , Euro - Americans made the analogy between verbal forms and social ...
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... leader , he recognized nativist spirituality as an authentic tradition despite its lack of a scripture . More bold in the ... leaders to manipulate the symbolism of speech and text to their own ends . Oratory emerged as a major political ...
... leader , he recognized nativist spirituality as an authentic tradition despite its lack of a scripture . More bold in the ... leaders to manipulate the symbolism of speech and text to their own ends . Oratory emerged as a major political ...
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... leadership through their display of physical courage in the face of hostile auditors and through their figures of memory and mediation . In these orations , the elite white male body became a figure for the nation . The tension between ...
... leadership through their display of physical courage in the face of hostile auditors and through their figures of memory and mediation . In these orations , the elite white male body became a figure for the nation . The tension between ...
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... leaders possessed spoken authority that mirrored Harriot's religious lectures . " The Inhabitants give great credit unto their speeche which oftentymes they finde to bee true , ” he notes of the shamans whom he calls " conjurers or ...
... leaders possessed spoken authority that mirrored Harriot's religious lectures . " The Inhabitants give great credit unto their speeche which oftentymes they finde to bee true , ” he notes of the shamans whom he calls " conjurers or ...
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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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