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Book The Elocutionists

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marian Wilson Kimber
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2017-01-19
  • ISBN : 025209915X
  • Pages : 352 pages

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.

Book Proceedings of the National Association of Elocutionists

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:

Book Acting and Actors  Elocution and Elocutionists

Download or read book Acting and Actors Elocution and Elocutionists written by Ayres Alfred and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the     Annual Meeting of the National Association of Elocutionists

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:

Book Proceedings of the     Annual Meeting of the Michigan Association of Elocutionists

Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Association of Elocutionists written by Michigan Association of Elocutionists and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Historical Study of the National Association of Elocutionists  1892 1906

Download or read book An Historical Study of the National Association of Elocutionists 1892 1906 written by Patsy Ruth Lowry and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outcastia Campaign Setting Book II  Player s Guidebook

Download or read book Outcastia Campaign Setting Book II Player s Guidebook written by Nitehawk Interactive Games and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've journeyed through the land in Book I and learned what you need to about the realm, now dive head first into the meat of this Campaign Setting with newly designed gaming elements that will help you to make your mark in the "Land of Dragons". This book includes: Races both unique and familiar. Eight races to choose from with subraces for most for a total of 28 choices to add to your arsenal of races we've already given you in the AHB, classes to delight both the power player and the new gamer alike with 9 to choose from and even a new NPC class for your CM, three new magic domains for the spellcaster inside of you with loads of new spells, as well as new skills, feats, and equipment. With this book you will have everything you need to play in the realm of Outcastia (and beyond). Even CMs will have most everything they will need...for now. So what are you waiting for? Grab some paper and pencils. Bring out that dice. Rev up your imagination and travel to a land of magic and mayhem. Your journey awaits.

Book The Elementary Elocutionist  a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse  Preceded by an Introduction  Containing a New View of the Cause of Inflection  from which Mr  Walker s System of Rules is Shewn to be Erroneous

Download or read book The Elementary Elocutionist a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse Preceded by an Introduction Containing a New View of the Cause of Inflection from which Mr Walker s System of Rules is Shewn to be Erroneous written by John WHITE (Teacher of Elocution, Aberdeen.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The elementary elocutionist  a selection of pieces in prose and verse  by J  White

Download or read book The elementary elocutionist a selection of pieces in prose and verse by J White written by John White (A.M.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oratorical Culture in Nineteenth century America

Download or read book Oratorical Culture in Nineteenth century America written by Gregory Clark and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Clark and S. Michael Halloran bring together nine essays that explore change in both the theory and the practice of rhetoric in the nineteenth-century United States. In their introductory essay, Clark and Halloran argue that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, rhetoric encompassed a neoclassical oratorical culture in which speakers articulated common values to establish consensual moral authority that directed community thought and action. As the century progressed, however, moral authority shifted from the civic realm to the professional, thus expanding participation in the community as it fragmented the community itself. Clark and Halloran argue that this shift was a transformation in which rhetoric was reconceived to meet changing cultural needs. Part I examines the theories and practices of rhetoric that dominated at the beginning of the century. The essays in this section include "Edward Everett and Neoclassical Oratory in Genteel America" by Ronald F. Reid, "The Oratorical Poetic of Timothy Dwight" by Gregory Clark, "The Sermon as Public Discourse: Austin Phelps and the Conservative Homiletic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century America" by Russel Hirst, and "A Rhetoric of Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America" by P. Joy Rouse. Part 2 examines rhetorical changes in the culture that developed during that century. The essays include "The Popularization of Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric: Elocution and the Private Learner" by Nan Johnson, "Rhetorical Power in the Victorian Parlor: Godey’s Lady’s Book and the Gendering of Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric" by Nicole Tonkovich, "Jane Addams and the Social Rhetoric of Democracy" by Catherine Peaden, "The Divergence of Purpose and Practice on the Chatauqua: Keith Vawter’s Self-Defense" by Frederick J. Antczak and Edith Siemers, and "The Rhetoric of Picturesque Scenery: A Nineteenth-Century Epideictic" by S. Michael Halloran.

Book Feeling Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amit S. Yahav
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2018-03-19
  • ISBN : 081229503X
  • Pages : 208 pages

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.

Book The Rhetoric of Western Thought

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:

Book The International Speaker and Popular Elocutionist

Download or read book The International Speaker and Popular Elocutionist written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Formation of College English

Download or read book The Formation of College English written by Thomas P. Miller and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the eighteenth century, English literature, composition, and rhetoric were introduced almost simultaneously into colleges throughout the British cultural provinces. Professorships of rhetoric and belles lettres were established just as print was reaching a growing reading public and efforts were being made to standardize educated taste and usage. The provinces saw English studies as a means to upward social mobility through cultural assimilation. In the educational centers of England, however, the introduction of English represented a literacy crisis brought on by provincial institutions that had failed to maintain classical texts and learned languages. Today, as rhetoric and composition have become reestablished in the humanities in American colleges, English studies are being broadly transformed by cultural studies, community literacies, and political controversies. Once again, English departments that are primarily departments of literature see these basic writing courses as a sign of a literacy crisis that is undermining the classics of literature. The Formation of College English reexamines the civic concerns of rhetoric and the politics that have shaped and continue to shape college English.

Book Women s Experience of Modernity  1875 1945

Download or read book Women s Experience of Modernity 1875 1945 written by Leslie W. Lewis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-01-27 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing such cultural practices as selling and shopping, political and social activism, urban field work and rural labor, radical discourses on feminine sexuality, and literary and artistic experimentation, this volume contributes to the rich vein of current feminist scholarship on the "gender of modernism" and challenges the assumption that modernism rose naturally or inevitably to the forefront of the cultural landscape at the turn of the twentieth century.".

Book Werner s Voice Magazine

Download or read book Werner s Voice Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: