The Oral Tradition in the South
Author: Waldo W. Braden
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Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780608008639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Waldo W. Braden
Publisher:
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780608008639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Liz Warren
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Published: 2008-07-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780536032980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Waldo W. Braden
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 1999-03-01
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780807124864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the years, the phrase “southern oratory” has become laden with myth; its mere invocation conjures up powerful images of grandiloquent antebellum patriarchs, enthusiastic New South hucksters, and raving wild-eyed demagogue politicians. In these essays, Waldo Braden strips away the myths to expose how the South’s orators achieved their rhetorical effects and manipulated their audiences. The Oral Tradition in the South begins with two essays that trace the roots of the South’s particular identification with oratory. In “The Emergence of the Concept of Southern Oratory, 1850–1950,” Braden suggests that it was through the influence of southern scholars that southern oratory gained its renown. The second essay, “The Oral Tradition in the Old South,” focuses on antebellum times to reveal the several factors that combined to make the region a fertile ground for oratory. Braden further explores the antebellum oratorical tradition in “The 1860 Election Campaign in Western Tennessee,” analyzing speeches made in Memphis by such national figures as William L. Yancey, Andrew Johnson, and Stephen A. Douglas, and revealing the nature of political canvassing in that era. Shifting his discussion to the years that followed the Civil War, Braden examines. in “Myths in a Rhetorical Context,” how such speakers as General John B. Gordon and Henry Grady worked to restore the shattered self-esteem of the region by spinning myths of the Old South and the Lost Cause and by proclaiming the hopeful era of the New South. The fifth essay, “The Rhetoric of Exploitation,” probes the rhetorical strategies of the demagogue politicians of the twentieth century-strategies such as “plain folks” appeals and race-baiting. In the final essay, “The Rhetoric of a Closed Society.” Braden analyzes the movement opposing racial integration in Mississippi. Showing how the White Citizens’ Council, Governor Ross Barnett, and other leaders manipulated the public to make the state a closed society from 1954 to 1964. Although he takes pains to establish the historical context in each of these essays, Braden’s emphasis as a rhetorical critic is always on the speeches themselves. He pays close attention to the kinds of appeals found in the words of the speeches and to the individual speaker’s use of images and phrases to evoke particular myths. But Braden looks beyond the texts of the speeches to take into account the full context of the event. “What the reader finds in the printed version of the text,” he explains, “might be only a small part of the myth, a tiny hint of what grinds inside frustrated listeners. Sometimes the trigger for the myth does not even appear in the printed version, because face-to-face the listeners and the speaker, feeling a oneness, evoke the myth without verbal expression.” To account for this nonverbal dimension of oratory, these essays assess the impact of the location and atmosphere of the gathering, the audience’s expectations, and the speaker’s use of ritual, symbolic gestures, and props. During the nearly forty years of his career, Waldo Braden has been a pioneer in the serious study of oratory. A landmark work, The Oral Tradition in the South is the capstone to a distinguished career, a comprehensive and authoritative study of the subject Braden has so innovatively researched.
Author: Ruth H. Finnegan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780253328687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exploring the oral traditions of the South Pacific, this work demonstrates that oral media and native cultural forms are vital throughout the South Pacific. It appeals to scholars concerned with the relationships between verbal art, social change, gender, power, and social organization.
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Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 1994-09-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1496806565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language retellings--the Cajun French and its English translation--along with insightful commentaries. This volume reveals the long and lively heritage of the Louisiana folktale among French Creoles and Cajuns and shows how tale-telling in Louisiana through the years has remained vigorous and constantly changing. Some of the best storytellers of the present day are highlighted in biographical sketches and are identified by some of their best tales. Their repertory includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, Pascal (improvised) stories, and legendary tales--all of them colorful examples of Louisiana narrative at its best. Though greatly transformed since the French arrived on southern soil, the French oral tradition is alive and flourishing today. It is even more complex and varied than has been shown in previous studies, for revealed here are African influences as well as others that have been filtered from America's multicultural mainstream.
Author: Albert Bates Lord
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780801497179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions, Albert Bates Lord here concentrates on the epic singers and their art as manifested in texts or performance.
Author: Jan Vansina
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive study of the importance of oral tradition of various ancient societies to the work and research of students and scholars of history, anthropology, folklore, and ethno-history.
Author: Yusuf M. Juwayeyi
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1847012531
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society.
Author: Rosalind Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-03-09
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521350259
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. The first significant attempt to study the implications of this view stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral tradition and examines their character and interaction.
Author: John Frederick Adolphus McNair
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-15
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Oral Tradition from the Indus" (Comprised in Tales to Which Are Added Explanatory Notes) by John Frederick Adolphus McNair, Thomas Lambert Barlow. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.