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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... Textual Possession and 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 ...
... Textual Possession and 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 ...
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... textual precedent . Awakening from her long sleep , the muse of eloquence " found her child , Persuasion , manacled and pinioned by the letter of the law " and " beheld an image of herself , stammering in barbarous Latin , and ...
... textual precedent . Awakening from her long sleep , the muse of eloquence " found her child , Persuasion , manacled and pinioned by the letter of the law " and " beheld an image of herself , stammering in barbarous Latin , and ...
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... textual forms , and republican govern- ment fostered the reinvigoration of the lost art of political eloquence.2 Long before Adams spoke , oratory had emerged as the first major form of ver- bal art in British North America because , as ...
... textual forms , and republican govern- ment fostered the reinvigoration of the lost art of political eloquence.2 Long before Adams spoke , oratory had emerged as the first major form of ver- bal art in British North America because , as ...
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... textual knowledge already structured gender and status relations among Euro- peans , for whom the possession of classical and vernacular literacies demarcated social roles . " Yet the meanings of literacy technologies were ambiguous and ...
... textual knowledge already structured gender and status relations among Euro- peans , for whom the possession of classical and vernacular literacies demarcated social roles . " Yet the meanings of literacy technologies were ambiguous and ...
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... textual bodies of language , not as fixed categories , but as figures for competing constructions of the social body . In what I call the performance semiotic of speech and text , claims to authen- ticity and relations of power were ...
... textual bodies of language , not as fixed categories , but as figures for competing constructions of the social body . In what I call the performance semiotic of speech and text , claims to authen- ticity and relations of power were ...
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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