Author: Henry Davenport NorthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delsarte system
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Delsarte Speaker, Or, Modern Elocution
Author: Henry Davenport NorthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delsarte system
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Delsarte Speaker; Or, Modern Elocution
Author: Henry Davenport NorthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delsarte system
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Delsarte Speaker, Or, Modern Elocution
Author: Henry Davenport NorthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delsarte system
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Delsarte Speaker, Or, Modern Elocution
Author: Henry Davenport NorthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delsarte system
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Democracy as Discussion
Author: William M. KeithPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739115077
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Using primary sources from archives around the country, Democracy as Discussion traces the early history of the Speech field, the development of discussion as an alternative to debate, and the Deweyan, Progressive philosophy of discussion that swept the United States in the early twentieth century.
Forensics in America
Author: Michael BartanenPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442226218
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Here is the story of the process by which competitive speech and debate evolved in the United States during the 20th Century. This authoritative history shows how forensics, as practiced in the United States, was an uneasy fusion of contradictory premises that began as a significant part of the tradition of American public address: The need for preparing students to participate in democratic governance in conflict with a student’s need to express personal and competitive impulses. Forensics represented a push and pull between an activity simultaneously considered to be both a public and a private good. The book: identifies the themes and trends of American forensics within an overarching chronological framework; reveals the impact of American forensics on the communication discipline, as well as America’s social and educational systems; concentrates on the elements of social history that contributed to organizational development, leadership, and politics; and, provides a base line reflecting the influences of both American culture in particular, and western culture in general, for cross-cultural comparisons between processes and effects of forensics as a form of education. While intrinsically valuable as part of a comprehensive understanding of the history of higher education in the United States in the 20th Century, Forensics in America: A History is significant in providing a context for understanding the role forensics may play in the 21st Century. The book expands the study of American public address, focuses on the pedagogy of forensics training, and explores cultural dimensions of forensics activities.
Home and School Speaker
Author: The International Speaker and Popular Elocutionist
Author: Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education
Author: David GoldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135104956
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation for professional and public life. This book fills an important gap in the history of rhetoric and suggests new paths for the way histories may be told in the future, tracing the shifting arc of women's oratorical training as it develops from forms of eighteenth-century rhetoric into institutional and extrainstitutional settings at the end of the nineteenth century and diverges into several distinct streams of community-embodied theory and practice in the twentieth. Treating key rhetors, genres, settings, and movements from the early republic to the present, these essays collectively challenge and complicate many previous claims made about the stability and development of gendered public and private spheres, the decline of oratorical culture and the limits of women's oratorical forms such as elocution and parlor rhetorics, and women's responses to rhetorical constraints on their public speaking. Enriching our understanding of women's oratorical education and practice, this cutting-edge work makes an important contribution to scholarship in rhetoric and communication.
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.