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 xiv
... spoken eloquence that played central roles in religious life , government , and diplomacy , and they adapted these traditions to the new world of European colonialism . Africans in North America , many of them slaves , came from ...
... spoken eloquence that played central roles in religious life , government , and diplomacy , and they adapted these traditions to the new world of European colonialism . Africans in North America , many of them slaves , came from ...
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... spoken words . The aspects of identity suggested , however misleadingly , by the speaker's physical presence shaped these performances of authority . Early American ora- tors understood the contextual nature and strategic uses of speech ...
... spoken words . The aspects of identity suggested , however misleadingly , by the speaker's physical presence shaped these performances of authority . Early American ora- tors understood the contextual nature and strategic uses of speech ...
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... spoken into being " play in the literature of the early republic and calls attention to the fact that " voice embodied a certain legitimating charisma that print could not " ( 4 , 5 ) . Whereas Looby finds evidence of the persistence of ...
... spoken into being " play in the literature of the early republic and calls attention to the fact that " voice embodied a certain legitimating charisma that print could not " ( 4 , 5 ) . Whereas Looby finds evidence of the persistence of ...
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... spoken word , however , but dependent on specific institutional forms and modes of address . Elite classical rhetoric was designed to reinforce social hierarchies , and despite the populist ap- peal of Revolutionary orators James Otis ...
... spoken word , however , but dependent on specific institutional forms and modes of address . Elite classical rhetoric was designed to reinforce social hierarchies , and despite the populist ap- peal of Revolutionary orators James Otis ...
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... spoken from the heart , unpremeditated and unrehearsed . Among the Pueblo people , a written speech or statement is highly suspect because the true feel- ings of the speaker remain hidden as she reads words that are detached from the ...
... spoken from the heart , unpremeditated and unrehearsed . Among the Pueblo people , a written speech or statement is highly suspect because the true feel- ings of the speaker remain hidden as she reads words that are detached from 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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