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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Orator"”.
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Denis Kearney: Sandlot Orator a Chronicle of California
… who, when I questioned him about the sand-lot orator (having traveled fifty miles to do so) ejaculated:"Denis Kearney! Why write about him?"</p> <p> Yes, why write about Denis Kearney? Simply because to use the words of the New York Nation of August 1, 1878 - here transcribed into the past …
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Cicero’s Incomplete Orator: The Transmission and Reception of the Mutilus Text
This dissertation traces the tradition of Orator, Cicero’s late work on oratorical style, through the Middle Ages. During that time and due to mechanical losses, the text circulated in a reduced or mutilus form consisting of only the middle half and tail-end of the treatise. An early chapter (1) …
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Alben W. Barkley: The Image of The Southern Political Orator (Kentucky)
The course of research on the concept of ethos has been basically directed toward evaluating how a given audience feels about the image or reputation that a speaker brings to the speech situation. The present study enlarged the scope of present commonly held beliefs about ethos to answer the …
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Hobo orator union: the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916.
… explores how the performance of soapbox oratory composed waged and unwaged workers as a class. The study is organized chronologically by date according to the major free speech fights in Spokane, Fresno, San Diego, and Everett. I argue that the hobo orators of the free speech fights …
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Consistency and Variation in Cicero's Oratorical Style
… Our point of departure was Cicero's statement (Orator 71-110) that the competent orator is the one who is capable of varying his style and adapting it to the particular requirements of his case.
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Eloquent Wisdom: The Role of Rhetoric and Delight in the Theology of Saint Augustine of Hippo
… rhetorical theory as found in De inventione, De oratore, and Orator shares many similarities with that of Late Antique rhetors (especially Marius Victorinus) in whose works the orator functions less as a statesman than as a physician of the soul. Accordingly, an orator’s role is not to sway the …
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Panegyrici Latinei, 6 and 7 : Translated with introductions and commentary
… and it is considered unlikely that the orator was a jurist or had held a full-time post in the imperial administration; the eviuence of the speech itself indicates that he combined occasional ewployment by the palace as orator, with a career as master of rhetoric. An appendix contains an …
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Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and Emancipation During the Civil War (Slavery, Feminism, Woman's Rights)
… Dickinson rose to prominence as an abolition orator, earning the title "Joan of Arc" of the Civil War.
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Unruly brides of Christ: virtuous transgression and interruption as ethos in religious women's rhetoric
… conceived of solely for use by the male citizen-orator of the polis, represents a hurdle for the female rhetor, who, in order to speak, must transgress gendered notions of virtue inherited from pagan, classical antiquity, and existent up until Christian modernity. Linking recent feminist …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of Milton's Areopagitica
… by portraying himself as an ideal classical orator, and his use of the techniques appropriate to deliberative rhetoric. We shall first define these principles according to the classical rhetoricians, and then we shall show how Milton uses these rhetorical principles in the exordium, the …
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ÍY SĆȺ (Good Work): A Study of Introspective Leadership Emerging From W̱SÁNEĆ
… themes emerged: the rhythms of W̱ SÁNEĆ, the orator-observer leadership duality, the emotional toll of leadership, the disruption of colonial governance structures, and selfdetermination through structural transformation. This work calls for a reconfiguration of Crown–Indigenous relationships …
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The Apparition of the Little Giant
… He is respected as an efficient and effective orator. He is remembered as an abolitionist. He is studied in contemporary literature. For years however, he has gone largely unnoticed in the genre of Southern literature, a genre which he helped pioneer and shape into a field that comprises over …
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A person of letters in Parliament : Edward Bulwer-Lytton's career as a member of the House of Commons and a minister of government 1831-1866
… periods, was an accomplished politician and orator and acknowledged so by his contemporaries. The context and content of Bulwer's work in Parliament and in the Cabinet provide insight not only into Bulwer himself, a literary person who was, in his day, politically prominent, but as well into …
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Compelled to make
… not deliberate whether he shall heal, nor an orator whether he should persuade, nor a statesman whether he shall produce law and order nor does anyone else deliberate about his end. 'They assume the end and consider how and by what means it is to be attained; and if it seems to be produced by …
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Style in Bossuet's 1662 Lenten Sermons: A Method of Rhetorical Analysis
… six sermons by France's best known neoclassical orator, Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627--1704). Delivered during Lent before the court of Louis XIV, the sermons provide an especially rich case study for examining the argumentative potential of figures. The frequent use of devices, such as …
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Art as argument: A rhetorical approach to teaching literature and painting
… The survey introduces the three offices of the orator (delighting, moving, instructing) and the five canons of rhetoric, particularly of invention, arrangement, and expression, terms later used in the heuristics this study advocates. Chapter 3 shows how the rhetorical approach has been applied …
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Maruja Mallo: La Realidad Femenina Dentro Del Surrealismo En España
… Mallo throughout her life as artist, professor, orator, muse and writer, I hope not only to repair the neglect that her work has suffered until recently, but also to emphasize the fact that women did make important poetic and artistic contributions to surrealism that were, given the conservative …
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In spite of yourself : the asignifying force of humor and laughter
… effects lie beyond the rational control of the orator. By tracing the often-unintended effects of humor through a range of comedic performances including stand-up comedy, radio, and film, this project ultimately argues that laughter’s rhetorical power resides not in what it means, but in what it …
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Epistole et orationes quedam cataldi siculi: estudio, edición crítica, traducción, notas e índices
… emprender una brillante carrera no sólo como orator regius, sino también como intelectual y maestro de los jóvenes herederos de la familia real y de las familias nobles lusitanas. Tras una breve referencia a la producción literaria de Cataldo, pasamos a la descripción de la estructura de su …
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