Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance

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Stanford University Press, 1993 - Počet stran: 268
This book sets the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution in general in the context of a revolution in rhetorical theory and practice that sought to discover a new language, a natural language equivalent to natural law that would permit, by its self-evidence, perfect understanding and the galvanising of public opinion. By demonstrating the intimate connections between the history of politics and the history of rhetoric and by tracing the larger issues of the Declaration to and through a wide array of cultural expressions - Declaring Independence offers, on the eve of the 250th anniversary of Jefferson's birth, the first full-length cultural contextualisation of America's founding document, as well as an interdisciplinary brief for reconsidering and enlarging the kinds of facts that are traditionally judged to be relevant to the understanding of a major historical document.

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Homer Fugues and Chairs 63 Natural Theatricality
79
Stage Fright 107 Private Lives and Public Scrutiny
120
Improvement 164 The Oratorical Ideal Racial Politics
189
The Declaration
204
Notes
211

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