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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... offered his students would set American education apart from European societies where " even when they studied RHETORIC , as a theory , they neglected ORATORY , as an art . " Political eloquence had not been properly valued since the ...
... offered his students would set American education apart from European societies where " even when they studied RHETORIC , as a theory , they neglected ORATORY , as an art . " Political eloquence had not been properly valued since the ...
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... offered unflattering meditations on the deceptive uses of writing , and revealed the ability of native leaders to manipulate the symbolism of speech and text to their own ends . Oratory emerged as a major political medium in the ...
... offered unflattering meditations on the deceptive uses of writing , and revealed the ability of native leaders to manipulate the symbolism of speech and text to their own ends . Oratory emerged as a major political medium in the ...
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... offered native interest in Western technologies and cultural practices as evidence that they would ultimately convert to Christianity and English iden- tity . Yet he incorporates evidence of Indian appropriations and transformations of ...
... offered native interest in Western technologies and cultural practices as evidence that they would ultimately convert to Christianity and English iden- tity . Yet he incorporates evidence of Indian appropriations and transformations of ...
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... offering , Smith claimed , “ a publike confirmation of a perpetuall league and friendship . " " Smith generalizes from his particular experi- ence to characterize the manner in which the Powhatan Indians received promi- nent visitors in ...
... offering , Smith claimed , “ a publike confirmation of a perpetuall league and friendship . " " Smith generalizes from his particular experi- ence to characterize the manner in which the Powhatan Indians received promi- nent visitors in ...
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... offered scriptural interpretation , mimicking the voices of prophets inscribed in sacred texts rather than asserting their own inspired understanding of the divine will . As a consequence of their textually mediated relation to the Lord ...
... offered scriptural interpretation , mimicking the voices of prophets inscribed in sacred texts rather than asserting their own inspired understanding of the divine will . As a consequence of their textually mediated relation to the Lord ...
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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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