Sökning: "Oratory"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Oratory.
1. The Discourse of Oratory : The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
Sammanfattning : The Discourse of Oratory: The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing is a study of the cultural anxieties about the power of public speaking that pervaded the mid eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Its argument is that those anxieties formed a discursive center for two of the most important forces in the history of British letters and literary studies -- Romanticism and the New Rhetoric -- and that those forces engaged it primarily through a shared concern with the rise of religious evangelism. LÄS MER
2. Making Enemies : The Logic of Immorality in Ciceronian Oratory
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the role played by the topic of immorality in the extant speeches of the Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)and subsequently in the Roman political culture of the late Republic. It traces the portraits of immorality that Cicero made of his political and forensic enemies throughout his political career and his use of immorality as an argument in the Roman Senate, public assembly, and the courts. LÄS MER
3. Dissertatio academica, de influxu affectuum in oratoriam & poësin, quam consent. ampl. ord. philos in academia Upsaliensi, eruditorum censuræ modeste subjiciunt, auctor Carolus Joh. Alström ... et respondens Aaron Westeen, Arbogia Westmanni, in auditorio Gustaviano die [23] Junii MDCCLVIII
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4. Weeping for the res publica : Tears in Roman political culture
Sammanfattning : The thesis explores the meaning and function of tears in Roman political culture during the Republic and the Early Empire in various historical settings: mourning, the law court, and in different political contexts where power, authority, and subjection were expressed or exercised. This is carried through by reading representations of weeping in Greek and Latin literary works in different genres, written by different authors. LÄS MER
5. Libanius' Declamations 9 and 10
Sammanfattning : Of the Antiochene orator Libanius, active in the 4th century A.D., we have an unusually large quantity of literary products preserved. The works attributed to him include among others speeches, progymnasmata, and letters. LÄS MER
