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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Страница ix
... Social Body 19 iv . Native Speech and the Discipline of Text 33 Chapter One : Gender in Performance 40 i . Evangelical Performance of Speech and Text 40 ii . Women's Speech and Women's Silence in Jonathan Edwards's First Northampton ...
... Social Body 19 iv . Native Speech and the Discipline of Text 33 Chapter One : Gender in Performance 40 i . Evangelical Performance of Speech and Text 40 ii . Women's Speech and Women's Silence in Jonathan Edwards's First Northampton ...
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... social and cultural relations . Whether negotiating for land , political authority , or spiritual leadership , speakers enacted their competing claims to au- thenticity and power through the symbolic use of speech and text . From ...
... social and cultural relations . Whether negotiating for land , political authority , or spiritual leadership , speakers enacted their competing claims to au- thenticity and power through the symbolic use of speech and text . From ...
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... social body in oratori- cal performance . The nature of verbal symbolism shifted subtly over the colonial period . For the first century of colonization , British Americans imagined the rela- tionship between speech and text as a ...
... social body in oratori- cal performance . The nature of verbal symbolism shifted subtly over the colonial period . For the first century of colonization , British Americans imagined the rela- tionship between speech and text as a ...
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... social tensions produced by cultural difference . The orator made these tensions visible as he or she performed social conflict through the symbolism of the written and spoken words . The aspects of identity suggested , however ...
... social tensions produced by cultural difference . The orator made these tensions visible as he or she performed social conflict through the symbolism of the written and spoken words . The aspects of identity suggested , however ...
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... social transformation and oral forms as fixed , " primitive " modes of expression may attach different values to textually driven change , either celebrating the developments attributed to writing and print or de- ploring them . But ...
... social transformation and oral forms as fixed , " primitive " modes of expression may attach different values to textually driven change , either celebrating the developments attributed to writing and print or de- ploring them . But ...
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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Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America Sandra M. Gustafson Ограничен достъп - 2012 |
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