Democratic Eloquence

Author : Kenneth Cmiel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520074859
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Eloquence written by Kenneth Cmiel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A penetrating account of the long debate about the kind of public language appropriate for a democratic society. . . . Cmiel manages to do justice to both sides."--Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism "Every scholar interested in the English language will put this book next to Mencken and Baugh. It will be indispensable to writing the social history of English into the 20th Century."--Joseph Williams, author of Origins of the English Language

Author : Laura L Mielke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472124374
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Provocative Eloquence written by Laura L Mielke and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery’s defenders often used brute force to suppress opponents, and even those abolitionists dedicated to pacifism drew upon visions of widespread destruction. Provocative Eloquence recounts how the theater, long an arena for heightened eloquence and physical contest, proved terribly relevant in the lead up to the Civil War. As antislavery speech and open conflict intertwined, the nation became a stage. The book brings together notions of intertextuality and interperformativity to understand how the confluence of oratorical and theatrical practices in the antebellum period reflected the conflict over slavery and deeply influenced the language that barely contained that conflict. The book draws on a wide range of work in performance studies, theater history, black performance theory, oratorical studies, and literature and law to provide a new narrative of the interaction of oratorical, theatrical, and literary histories of the nineteenth-century U.S.

Author : Ashley Horace Thorndike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Eloquence written by Ashley Horace Thorndike and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roderick P. Hart
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231557779
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Eloquence written by Roderick P. Hart and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes political speech powerful? How does eloquent rhetoric transcend ordinary language? Which stylistic choices allow effective orators to stir emotions and spur action? And in the age of Donald Trump, does political eloquence still matter? This book examines a wide swath of political discourse to shed new light on the meaning and significance of eloquence. Roderick P. Hart, a leading scholar of political communication, develops new ways of measuring persuasiveness and rhetorical power through the use of computer-based methods. He examines one hundred of the most important speeches of the twentieth century, given by presidents and politicians as well as leaders, activists, and cultural figures including Martin Luther King Jr., Lou Gehrig, Mario Savio, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Stokely Carmichael. Deploying the tools of the digital humanities as well as critical rhetorical analysis, Hart considers what distinguishes the linguistic properties of iconic oratory from those of more mundane texts. He argues that eloquence represents the confluence of cultural resonance, personal investment, and poetic imagination, providing empirical metrics for assessing each of these qualities. A quantitative and qualitative exploration of American political speech, this interdisciplinary book offers a powerful argument for why eloquence is essential for a functioning democracy.

Author : Yasmin Solomonescu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192863738
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persuasion After Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism written by Yasmin Solomonescu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume studies how in European literary culture the codified verbal system of rhetoric shifted towards persuasion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Author : Alexander Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Eloquence written by Alexander Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gavin Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520214218
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Talk written by Gavin Jones and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-10-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Jones] links obscure forays into dialectology with familiar canonical works of literature in surprising and innovative ways. He also has some astute insights into the politics of language in this country—a topic as current now as it was during the period about which he writes."—Shelly Fisher Fishkin, University of Texas, Austin

Author : Thomas Brackett Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Eloquence written by Thomas Brackett Reed and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Modern eloquence in twelve volumes : the outstanding after-dinner speeches, lectures and addresses of modern times by the most eminent speakers of America and Europe" ... "Introductory essays by eminent authorities giving a practical course of instruction on the important phases of public speaking."

Author : Stuart M. McManus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110890498X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Eloquence written by Stuart M. McManus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world, which places the classical rhetorical tradition within the context of Iberian global expansion in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

Author : Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199879109
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eloquence in an Electronic Age written by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-04-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that blends anecdote with analysis, Kathleen Hall Jamieson--author of the award-winning Packaging the Presidency--offers a perceptive and often disturbing account of the transformation of political speechmaking. Jamieson addresses such fundamental issues about public speaking as what talents and techniques differentiate eloquent speakers from non-eloquent speakers. She also analyzes the speeches of modern presidents from Truman to Reagan and of political players from Daniel Webster to Mario Cuomo. Ranging from the classical orations of Cicero to Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, this lively, well-documented volume contains a wealth of insight into public speaking, contemporary characteristics of eloquence, and the future of political discourse in America.