The Elocutionists

Author : Marian Wilson Kimber
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209915X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elocutionists written by Marian Wilson Kimber and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists transgressed the previous boundaries between private and public domains. Their performances advocated for female agency while also contributing to a new social construction of gender. Elocutionists, proud purveyors of wholesome entertainment, pointedly contrasted their "acceptable" feminine attributes against those of morally suspect actresses. As Wilson Kimber shows, their influence far outlived their heyday. Women, the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, did nothing less than create a tradition that helped shape the history of American music.

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Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elocutionist's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Association of Elocutionists (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the National Association of Elocutionists written by National Association of Elocutionists (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book The Elocutionist's Annual ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amit S. Yahav
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081229503X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeling Time written by Amit S. Yahav and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary historians have tended to associate the eighteenth century with the rise of the tyranny of the clock—the notion of time as ruled by mechanical chronometry. The transition to standardized scheduling and time-discipline, the often-told story goes, inevitably results in modernity's time-keeper societies and the characterization of modern experience as qualitatively diminished. In Feeling Time, Amit Yahav challenges this narrative of the triumph of chronometry and the consequent impoverishment of individual experience. She explores the fascination eighteenth-century writers had with the mental and affective processes through which human beings come not only to know that time has passed but also to feel the durations they inhabit. Yahav begins by elucidating discussions by Locke and Hume that examine how humans come to know time, noting how these philosophers often consider not only knowledge but also experience. She then turns to novels by Richardson, Sterne, and Radcliffe, attending to the material dimensions of literary language to show how novelists shape the temporal experience of readers through their formal choices. Along the way, she considers a wide range of eighteenth-century aesthetic and moral treatises, finding that these identify the subjective experience of duration as the crux of pleasure and judgment, described more as patterned durational activity than as static state. Feeling Time highlights the temporal underpinnings of the eighteenth century's culture of sensibility, arguing that novelists have often drawn on the logic of musical composition to make their writing an especially effective tool for exploring time and for shaping durational experience.

Author : Thomas Sheridan
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language written by Thomas Sheridan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language" by Thomas Sheridan. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : James L. Golden
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
ISBN 13 : 9780787299675
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Western Thought written by James L. Golden and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Barber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book The Elocutionist written by Jonathan Barber and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book The Elocutionist written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Association of Elocutionists (U.S.)
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Total Pages : 796 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the National Association of Elocutionists written by National Association of Elocutionists (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: