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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... 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 . Native Speech and the Discipline of Text 33 Chapter One : Gender in Performance 40 i ...
... 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 . Native Speech and the Discipline of Text 33 Chapter One : Gender in Performance 40 i ...
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... oral genres . In the American crucible of cul- tures , these oratorical traditions collided , merged , and polarized to create vibrant traditions of verbal art.3 Hendrick Aupaumut's career as a diplomat for the Washington administra ...
... oral genres . In the American crucible of cul- tures , these oratorical traditions collided , merged , and polarized to create vibrant traditions of verbal art.3 Hendrick Aupaumut's career as a diplomat for the Washington administra ...
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... oral cultures and " civilized " literate societies . Social arbiters advanced the written word as pro- tection against the attractions of the textless " savage " or " enthusiast . " Beginning with the Salem witchcraft crisis and the ...
... oral cultures and " civilized " literate societies . Social arbiters advanced the written word as pro- tection against the attractions of the textless " savage " or " enthusiast . " Beginning with the Salem witchcraft crisis and the ...
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... oral performance . Preachers and political orators sig- nified unmediated access to truth in extemporaneous speeches ... oral genres . " Scholars frequently assume a static and homogenous oral world as a canvas upon 8. " The West ...
... oral performance . Preachers and political orators sig- nified unmediated access to truth in extemporaneous speeches ... oral genres . " Scholars frequently assume a static and homogenous oral world as a canvas upon 8. " The West ...
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... 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 of eloquence in the early re- publican ...
... 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 of eloquence in the early re- publican ...
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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