Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

Gustafson, Sandra M.

ISBN 10: 0807825751 / ISBN 13: 9780807825754

Edité par Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2000

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• Titre: Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
• Éditeur: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0807825751
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780807825754
• Reliure: hardcover
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

This work examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic and political speech that flourished in British America and the early republic from colonization and throughout 1800. The performance semiotic of speech and text as a tool for understanding the American oratory tradition is developed.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Sandra Gustafson examines the verbal art of speech in sacred, political and diplomatic forms as it was created and practiced in colonial America and the early republic. She demonstrates that, in the distinctly American interaction of cultures, contact and conflict among Europeans, native Americans, and Africans gave particular significance and complexity to the uses of the spoken word.