Author: Edith HeraudPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Hand-book of elocution and oratory (by E. Heraud).
Hand-book of Elocution and Oratory
Author: Eloquence Is Power
Author: Sandra M. GustafsonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807839140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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 flourished in British America and the early republic from colonization through 1800. She demonstrates that, in the American crucible of cultures, contact and conflict among Europeans, native Americans, and Africans gave particular significance and complexity to the uses of the spoken word. Gustafson develops what she calls the performance semiotic of speech and text as a tool for comprehending the rich traditions of early American oratory. Embodied in the delivery of speeches, she argues, were complex projections of power and authenticity that were rooted in or challenged text-based claims of authority. Examining oratorical performances as varied as treaty negotiations between native and British Americans, the eloquence of evangelical women during the Great Awakening, and the founding fathers' debates over the Constitution, Gustafson explores how orators employed the shifting symbolism of speech and text to imbue their voices with power.
The Handbook of Oratory
Author: William Vincent ByarsPublisher: St. Louis, Chicago, F. P. Kaiser
ISBN:
Category : Orators
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Forensics
Author: Brent C. ObergPublisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN: 9781566080156
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Designed to introduce students to individual forensic events, giving suggestions and guidelines for their preparation. The text describes each event and the experience of competing. Students are shown how to select and perform winning materials, and how to achieve success. Chapters describe the structure and strategies of original oratory, extemporaneous speaking, humorous, dramatic, poetic, and duet interpretation, as well as prose interpretation, impromptu and expository speaking required by many forensics contests.
The New Popular Reciter and Book of Elocution ...
Author: Frances Putnam PoglePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Elocutionists
Author: Marian Wilson KimberPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209915X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
Springer Handbook of Speech Processing
Author: Jacob BenestyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540491252
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
This handbook plays a fundamental role in sustainable progress in speech research and development. With an accessible format and with accompanying DVD-Rom, it targets three categories of readers: graduate students, professors and active researchers in academia, and engineers in industry who need to understand or implement some specific algorithms for their speech-related products. It is a superb source of application-oriented, authoritative and comprehensive information about these technologies, this work combines the established knowledge derived from research in such fast evolving disciplines as Signal Processing and Communications, Acoustics, Computer Science and Linguistics.
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