Peerless Reciter
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Melodramatic Voices Understanding Music Drama
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Author : Sarah Hibberd
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Melodramatic Voices Understanding Music Drama written by Sarah Hibberd and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Music categories.
The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en scène and music were as important in communicating meaning and passion as spoken dialogue. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image. This relationship is examined closely, and its evolution in the twentieth century in selected operas, musicals and films is understood as an extension of this nineteenth-century aesthetic. The book therefore develops our understanding of opera in the context of melodrama's broader influence on musical culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, theatre and modern languages as well as music and opera.
Gender And Rhetorical Space In American Life 1866 1910
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Author : Nan Johnson
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2002
Gender And Rhetorical Space In American Life 1866 1910 written by Nan Johnson and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Nan Johnson demonstrates that after the Civil War, nonacademic or "parlor" traditions of rhetorical performance helped to sustain the icon of the white middle class woman as queen of her domestic sphere by promoting a code of rhetorical behavior for women that required the performance of conventional femininity. Through a lucid examination of the boundaries of that gendered rhetorical space--and the debate about who should occupy that space--Johnson explores the codes governing and challenging the American woman's proper rhetorical sphere in the postbellum years. While men were learning to preach, practice law, and set political policies, women were reading elocution manuals, letter-writing handbooks, and other conduct literature. These texts reinforced the conservative message that women's words mattered, but mattered mostly in the home. Postbellum pedagogical materials were designed to educate Americans in rhetorical skills, but they also persistently directed the American woman to the domestic sphere as her proper rhetorical space. Even though these materials appeared to urge the white middle class women to become effective speakers and writers, convention dictated that a woman's place was at the hearthside where her rhetorical talents were to be used in counseling and instructing as a mother and wife. Aided by twenty-one illustrations, Johnson has meticulously compiled materials from historical texts no longer readily available to the general public and, in so doing, has illuminated this intersection of rhetoric and feminism in the nineteenth century. The rhetorical pedagogies designed for a postbellum popular audience represent the cultural sites where a rethinking of women's roles becomes open controversy about how to value their words. Johnson argues this era of uneasiness about shifting gender roles and the icon of the "quiet woman" must be considered as evidence of the need for a more complete revaluing of women's space in historical discourse.
Home School Of Elocution Or Easy Lessons In The Art Of Entertaining
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Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Home School Of Elocution Or Easy Lessons In The Art Of Entertaining written by Henry Davenport Northrop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Dummies (Bookselling) categories.
Young People S Speaker
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Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Young People S Speaker written by Henry Davenport Northrop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Readers categories.
Democratic Vernaculars
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Author : J Michael Sproule
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-02-13
Democratic Vernaculars written by J Michael Sproule and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorical vernacular that occupies the “middle range” of English, bounded on the one side by expressive structure (grammar and linguistics) and on the other by aesthetics (literature). Broadening the history of rhetoric by considering a vast collection of vernacular resources such as elementary grammars and readers, popular guidebooks, textbooks, and rhetorical treatises, this book advances the history of the rhetorical theory and pedagogy since the 17th century by examining ways in which diverse vectors of the rhetorical vernacular coalesced to produce an English language sufficiently idiomatic for practical social exchange while being, at the same time, suitable for higher literary, scholarly, and cultural pursuits. Democratic Vernaculars is essential reading for scholars in rhetoric and the histories of language and education, and can serve as a text for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric.
Performing Antiquity
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Author : Samuel N. Dorf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Performing Antiquity written by Samuel N. Dorf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Music categories.
Performing Antiquity tells the captivating story about some of the most intriguing Belle Époque personalities -archaeologists, philologists, classicists, and musicologists - and the dancers, composers, choreographers and musicians who brought their research to life at the birth of Modernism.
The Delsarte Speaker Or Modern Elocution
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Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Delsarte Speaker Or Modern Elocution written by Henry Davenport Northrop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Delsarte system categories.
The Flowery Kingdom And The Land Of The Mikado
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Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
The Flowery Kingdom And The Land Of The Mikado written by Henry Davenport Northrop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with China categories.
The Overland Monthly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Overland Monthly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Indians of North America categories.
The Star Garden
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Author : Nancy E. Turner
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-09-04
The Star Garden written by Nancy E. Turner and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-04 with Fiction categories.
From the bestselling author of These Is My Words comes this exhilarating follow-up to the beloved Sarah's Quilt. In the latest diary entries of pioneer woman Sarah Agnes Prine, Nancy E. Turner continues Sarah's extraordinary story as she struggles to make a home in the Arizona Territory. It is winter 1906, and nearing bankruptcy after surviving drought, storms, and the rustling of her cattle, Sarah remains a stalwart pillar to her extended family. Then a stagecoach accident puts in her path three strangers who will change her life. In sickness and in health, neighbor Udell Hanna remains a trusted friend, pressing for Sarah to marry. When he reveals a plan to grant Sarah her dearest wish, she is overwhelmed with passion and excitement. She soon discovers, however, that there is more to a formal education than she bargained for. Behind the scenes, Sarah's old friend Maldonado has struck a deal with the very men who will become linchpins of the Mexican Revolution. Maldonado plots to coerce Sarah into partnership, but when she refuses, he devises a murderous plan to gain her land for building a railroad straight to Mexico. When Sarah's son Charlie unexpectedly returns from town with a new bride, the plot turns into an all-out range war between the two families. Finally putting an end to Udell's constant kindnesses, Sarah describes herself as "an iron-boned woman." She wants more than to be merely a comfortable fill-in for his dead wife. It is only through a chance encounter that she discovers his true feelings, and only then can she believe that a selfless love has at last reached out to her. . . .