Author: Joseph Edwards CarpenterPublisher:
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Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Popular Elocutionist and Reciter
Author: Joseph Edwards CarpenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Popular Elocutionist and Reciter (Classic Reprint)
Author: J. E. CarpenterPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331451969
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Excerpt from The Popular Elocutionist and Reciter A few words to account for the publication of "The Popular Elocutionist and Reciter." Some years since the Editor commenced his publication, "Penny Readings in Prose and Verse," which extended to twelve volumes of 256 pages each. A Library Edition in five volumes was subsequently issued, and of these two works about a quarter of a million copies have been disposed of. Though intended in the first instance for the use of platform readers only, they were adopted as an Elocution Class book in many public and private schools. For this purpose they ultimately became too bulky. The inconvenience of a school book extending over a series of volumes is so patent that it need scarcely be pointed out. It was to obviate this, and acting on the suggestion of several heads of schools, and esteemed professors of Elocution, that the present work was undertaken. The "Popular Readings," they asserted, contained so many more modern pieces than any of the "Speakers" now in use, that a selection of the best of them, excluding such as were adapted to the platform only, and classifying the rest, would supply a real want. The sale of numerous editions, revised and added to as opportunity offered, has justified this opinion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The popular elocutionist and reciter: classified, arranged, and ed. by J.E. Carpenter. New and extended ed
Author: Joseph Edwards CarpenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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.
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Author: The Principles of Elocution, and Exercises in Reading, Recitation, Oratory, &c
Author: William GrahamPublisher:
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Category : Recitations
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
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