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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... of the hier- archical coding of " oral " and " literate " societies in Literacy in Theory and Practice ( Cambridge , 1984 ) , chaps . 1 , 2 . which the transformative effects of the written and printed word Introduction : xvii.
... of the hier- archical coding of " oral " and " literate " societies in Literacy in Theory and Practice ( Cambridge , 1984 ) , chaps . 1 , 2 . which the transformative effects of the written and printed word Introduction : xvii.
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... practice of voice much earlier than either Looby or Fliegelman , to the Salem witchcraft controversy and the Great Awakening . Ruttenberg insists upon the performative origins of democratic speech , locating it in the sponta- neous and ...
... practice of voice much earlier than either Looby or Fliegelman , to the Salem witchcraft controversy and the Great Awakening . Ruttenberg insists upon the performative origins of democratic speech , locating it in the sponta- neous and ...
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... practices were both strategically valuable in dealing with colonists and sources of substantial psychic and cultural strain . Colonists celebrated the supposedly textless native American or African speaker as a noble savage or reviled ...
... practices were both strategically valuable in dealing with colonists and sources of substantial psychic and cultural strain . Colonists celebrated the supposedly textless native American or African speaker as a noble savage or reviled ...
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... Practice ( Cam- bridge , 1984 ) , chaps . 1 , 2. On speech and text as differential rather than absolute terms in the con- text of native American oral traditions , see Arnold Krupat , " Post - Structuralism and Oral Litera- ture , " in ...
... Practice ( Cam- bridge , 1984 ) , chaps . 1 , 2. On speech and text as differential rather than absolute terms in the con- text of native American oral traditions , see Arnold Krupat , " Post - Structuralism and Oral Litera- ture , " in ...
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... practices . " Harriot records the uses to which Wingina and his people hoped to put English spiritual power , which included the healing of the devastating new diseases that the strangers brought with them , the ending of a drought ...
... practices . " Harriot records the uses to which Wingina and his people hoped to put English spiritual power , which included the healing of the devastating new diseases that the strangers brought with them , the ending of a drought ...
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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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