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From:Feminist WritersAbolitionist leader, orator, journalist, and diplomat: the man who would one day be known to the world as Frederick Douglass transcended the oppression of his childhood to become one of the most forward-thinking social...
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From: African American Writers[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Henderson offers an overview of Brown's life and career.] Sterling Allen Brown, a pioneering and gifted poet, a seminal scholar, a brilliant critic, a master teacher, and...
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From: ELH[(essay date winter 1975) In the following essay, Swingle contends that in Crabbe's late verse, the poet is more concerned with "the phenomenon of change" than with complex moral issues.] I For the general reader,...
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From: The Black Scholar[(essay date March-April 1981) In the following essay, Taylor offers an appreciation of Brown's work, contending that the poet's significance "is that he planted foundations beneath modern black verse, and in so doing,...
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From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 83, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDespite his admiration for Donatello as one of the finest sculptors of his age, the Florentine artist best known as Filarete cautioned readers of his Trattato dellarchitettura: "If you have to do apostles, do not make...
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From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn early 1900, Richard Henry Pratt, superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, invited Zitkala-Sa to travel as a violin soloist with the Carlisle Indian School Band on their tour of the...
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From:The Classical Journal (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis paper seeks to contribute to the study of epistolography as well as to discussions of women in antiquity by examining the use of references to women in the correspondence of Pronto and Marcus Aurelius as...
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From:The Classical Journal (Vol. 109, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPliny's portrayal of his public life under Domitian has often come under fire from both those who approach Pliny's Letters from a historical perspective and those who study them as a literary production. This article...
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From:The Classical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn his On the Chersonese, Demosthenes challenges his audience with the question: "who cares about the Greeks living Asia?" (8.27). He implies that those who did were unpatriotic, but in doing so reveals that the Greeks...
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From:The Classical Journal (Vol. 111, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues that Cicero's use of Demosthenes in his Brutus and Orator should be read in light of Caesar's dictatorship. An examination of Demosthenes' Hellenistic reception reveals that his significance in the...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA more accurate assessment of Sojourner Truth's life can be made from examining her speeches and letters after 1850 than from her biography. 'The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time' was written by...
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOf all the Native orators of the early nineteenth century, Sagoyewatha (pronounced Shay-go-ye-watha or Sa-go-ye-wat-ha) was one of the most famous in Angloamerica. Better known as Red Jacket, for the red coat given to...
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From:EHumanista (Vol. 28) Peer-ReviewedTras la traduccion y comentarios de la Materia medica de Dioscorides, Andres Laguna (ca. 1511-1558) publica en Amberes en 1557 una version castellana de las Catilinarias de Ciceron, la primera en esta lengua. Tal hecho...
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From:Connotations (Vol. 1, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedProfessor Randall has performed a signal service by drawing the scholarly community's attention to the drama entitled The Tragedy of that Famous Roman Orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero, which was published in London in...
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From:George Herbert Journal (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOn Wednesday afternoon, October 8, 1623, George Herbert, as Public Orator of the University of Cambridge, faced perhaps his most difficult rhetorical performance. He was welcoming Prince Charles home from unsuccessful...
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From:The Classical Journal (Vol. 109, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis study argues that, at Eel. 4.62, Quintilian's manuscript reading qui non risere parentes is superior to the two commonly accepted readings, eui non risere parentes (Virgil's MSS) and qui non risere parenti (the...
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From:Connotations (Vol. 1, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHarking back to Jonson's Catiline (1611) and reminding us that that work was the most frequently cited earlier play in mid-seventeenth-century England, Marcus Tullius Cicero (1651) is a carefully crafted,...
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From:The Classical Journal (Vol. 115, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedCicero's persuasive goal in his Philippics was to rouse the senate and people of Rome to resist Marcus Antonius in hopes of restoring the libertas populi Romani and some semblance of the Republic as he envisioned it. As...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 55, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe "feminist trilogy" novels of the English New Woman author Sarah Grand culminate, after a long and tortuous course, in a vision of the female public speaker, described by the narrator as "one of the first swallows of...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 101, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAlthough offering a description of duties substantially similar to that in the published text, the 1673 manuscript of Samuel Chappuzeau's Le Theatre francois is more confident about the orateur's central role in a...