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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... understanding cultural relationships . Unprece- dented contacts between peoples from the three continents of Africa , Europe , and North America coincided with the invention of the printing press to make ver- bal forms into primary ...
... understanding cultural relationships . Unprece- dented contacts between peoples from the three continents of Africa , Europe , and North America coincided with the invention of the printing press to make ver- bal forms into primary ...
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... understanding of the ways that the bodies of language figure constructions of the social body in oratori- cal performance . The nature of verbal symbolism shifted subtly over the colonial period . For the first century of colonization ...
... understanding of the ways that the bodies of language figure constructions of the social body in oratori- cal performance . The nature of verbal symbolism shifted subtly over the colonial period . For the first century of colonization ...
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... understanding of language in which textual forms displace 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 ...
... understanding of language in which textual forms displace 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 ...
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... Paul Lauter , “ The Literatures of America : A Comparative Discipline , " 9-34 , is particularly helpful . Also important for understanding the the semiotics of speech and text in American literature , Introduction : xix.
... Paul Lauter , “ The Literatures of America : A Comparative Discipline , " 9-34 , is particularly helpful . Also important for understanding the the semiotics of speech and text in American literature , Introduction : xix.
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... understanding of verbal forms to the early orators who devel- oped the performative symbolism of speech and text.15 Eighteenth - century orators used the performance semiotic to stage forms of power ranging from spiritual insight and ...
... understanding of verbal forms to the early orators who devel- oped the performative symbolism of speech and text.15 Eighteenth - century orators used the performance semiotic to stage forms of power ranging from spiritual insight and ...
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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