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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... letters in modern Europe , " forensic and deliberative eloquence had an influence limited by the dominance of a dead ... letter of the law " and " beheld an image of herself , stammering in barbarous Latin , and staggering under the ...
... letters in modern Europe , " forensic and deliberative eloquence had an influence limited by the dominance of a dead ... letter of the law " and " beheld an image of herself , stammering in barbarous Latin , and staggering under the ...
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... Letters in American Culture ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1984 ) ; Ferguson , " The American Enlightenment , 1750-1820 , ” in Sacvan Bercovitch , ed . , The Cambridge History of American Lit- erature , I , 1590-1820 ( Cambridge , 1994 ) , 345 ...
... Letters in American Culture ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1984 ) ; Ferguson , " The American Enlightenment , 1750-1820 , ” in Sacvan Bercovitch , ed . , The Cambridge History of American Lit- erature , I , 1590-1820 ( Cambridge , 1994 ) , 345 ...
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... 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 the ruptures effected ...
... 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 the ruptures effected ...
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... Letters of the Republic : Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth - Century America ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1990 ) , 1. Warner goes on to analyze the implications of that historical moment and to critique technological ...
... Letters of the Republic : Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth - Century America ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1990 ) , 1. Warner goes on to analyze the implications of that historical moment and to critique technological ...
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... Letters of the Republic . Both works take print as their telos , ignore the rise of oratory as an important genre , and neglect the complex semiotics attached to verbal form . 11. In Voicing America : Language , Literary Form , and the ...
... Letters of the Republic . Both works take print as their telos , ignore the rise of oratory as an important genre , and neglect the complex semiotics attached to verbal form . 11. In Voicing America : Language , Literary Form , and the ...
Съдържание
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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