Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America - Brossura

Gustafson, Sandra M.

 
9780807848883: Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America

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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.

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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.

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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.

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9780807825754: Eloquence Is Power: Oratory & Perfomance in Early America: Oratory and Performance in Early America

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ISBN 10:  0807825751 ISBN 13:  9780807825754
Casa editrice: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2000
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