[PDF] Speech And Power Of Expression eBook

Author : M. Fethullah Gülen
Publisher : Tughra Books
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1597846236

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Emphasizing the esthetic concerns of the Islamic civilization as well as underlining the true nature of the religion, this insightful opus contains a collection of essays on the art of language from a revered contemporary scholar of Islam. Written separately as lead articles for the Turkish literary magazine, Yagmur, the volume eloquently articulates the author’s approach to speech as well as his definitions of poetry, history, and beauty, all of which are deeply embroidered around the lacework of Islam. With powerful emphasis on belief in God, each essay addresses an important matter of language that aptly relates to the current state of affairs in the Muslim world and the nature of human existence in the 21st century as a whole.

Author : Andrew Laird
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1999-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192668773

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Can a speaker's words ever be faithfully reported? History, philosophy, ethnography, political theory, linguistics, and literary criticism all involve debates about discourse and representation. By drawing from Plato's theory of discourse, the lively analysis of speech presentation in this book provides a coherent and original contribution to these debates, and highlights the problems involved when speech becomes both the object and the medium of narrative representation. The opening chapters offer fresh insights on ideology, intertextuality, literary language, and historiography, and reveal important connections between them. These insights are then applied in specific critical treatments of - Virgil's Aeneid, of Petronius' Satyricon, and of scenes involving messengers and angels in classical and European epic. Throughout this study, ancient texts are discussed in conjunction with examples from later traditions. Overall, this book uses Latin literature to demonstrate the theoretical and ideological importance of speech presentation for a number of contemporary disciplines.

Author : Jerry Dunklee
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2019-03
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ISBN : 9781516545100

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The rights to free speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition are among the most important in a democracy. Without freedom to express one's ideas, democratic values such as the right to criticize government and society become hollow. To protect these freedoms, citizens must understand the roots, of the First Amendment, how it is challenged, and why it is so essential to a free people. The Power of Free Expression in America introduces the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment and explores the historic roots of freedom of expression from John Milton's Areopagitica to current law. It teaches the value of free speech, the role of the press in a free society, and the public's right to know. It defines news, addresses journalism ethics, public trust in the news media, hate speech, media ownership, broadcast regulations, invasion of privacy, and more -- including advice for using the power of free speech effectively. The text includes examples, articles, and court cases to illustrate the First Amendment in action and discuss its power. The second edition features new content that speaks to "fake news," expression in the digital age, and the impact of social media on free speech. Chapters on the Internet, the news, politics and the media, and what the future might hold have been updated to reflect recent developments. The Power of Free Expression in America is ideal for courses in journalism, communication, media studies, history, government, civics, or any course that explores the First Amendment and press in the United States. It is a valuable tool for teachers and students as society wrestles with the evolving role of First Amendment rights in America.

Author : E. A. Greening Lamborn
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780483920958

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Excerpt from Expression in Speech and Writing These chapters, being an account of some experiments in the attempt to develop the powers of self-expression in our children of the East Oxford School, contain the substance of lectures delivered at various times during the past three years to the Oxford Branch of the English Association and to Summer Schools at Oxford, Cam bridge, and Bangor. My thanks are due to Mr. P. E. Matheson for help in revising the proofs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Stanley Fish
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 1994-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198024193

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In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and "fascist" are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an unlikely lightning rod for controversy. A renowned scholar of Milton, head of the English Department of Duke University, Fish has emerged as a brilliantly original critic of the culture at large, praised and pilloried as a vigorous debunker of the pieties of both the left and right. His mission is not to win the cultural wars that preoccupy the nation's attention, but rather to redefine the terms of battle. In There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, Fish takes aim at the ideological gridlock paralyzing academic and political exchange in the nineties. In his witty, accessible dissections of the swirling controversies over multiculturalism, affirmative action, canon revision, hate speech, and legal reform, he neatly eviscerates both the conservatives' claim to possession of timeless, transcendent values (the timeless transcendence of which they themselves have conveniently identified), and the intellectual left's icons of equality, tolerance, and non-discrimination. He argues that while conservative ideologues and liberal stalwarts might disagree vehemently on what is essential to a culture, or to a curriculum, both mistakenly believe that what is essential can be identified apart from the accidental circumstances (of time and history) to which the essential is ritually opposed. In the book's first section, which includes the five essays written for Fish's celebrated debates with Dinesh D'Souza (the author and former Reagan White House policy analyst), Fish turns his attention to the neoconservative backlash. In his introduction, Fish writes, "Terms that come to us wearing the label 'apolitical'--'common values', 'fairness', 'merit', 'color blind', 'free speech', 'reason'--are in fact the ideologically charged constructions of a decidedly political agenda. I make the point not in order to level an accusation, but to remove the sting of accusation from the world 'politics' and redefine it as a synonym for what everyone inevitably does." Fish maintains that the debate over political correctness is an artificial one, because it is simply not possible for any party or individual to occupy a position above or beyond politics. Regarding the controversy over the revision of the college curriculum, Fish argues that the point is not to try to insist that inclusion of ethnic and gender studies is not a political decision, but "to point out that any alternative curriculum--say a diet of exclusively Western or European texts--would be no less politically invested." In Part Two, Fish follows the implications of his arguments to a surprising rejection of the optimistic claims of the intellectual left that awareness of the historical roots of our beliefs and biases can allow us, as individuals or as a society, to escape or transcend them. Specifically, he turns to the movement for reform of legal studies, and insists that a dream of a legal culture in which no one's values are slighted or declared peripheral can no more be realized than the dream of a concept of fairness that answers to everyone's notions of equality and jsutice, or a yardstick of merit that is true to everyone's notions of worth and substance. Similarly, he argues that attempts to politicize the study of literature are ultimately misguided, because recharacterizations of literary works have absolutely no impact on the mainstream of political life. He concludes his critique of the academy with "The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos," an extraordinary look at some of the more puzzing, if not out-and-out masochistic, characteristics of a life in academia. Penetrating, fearless, and brilliantly argued, There's No Such Thing as Free Speech captures the essential Fish. It is must reading for anyone who cares about the outcome of America's cultural wars.

Author : Edwin Lawrence
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2015-05-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781512310559

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From the INTRODUCTION. That American voices are harsh, nasal, and devoid of beauty is such an oft told tale that I almost fear to repeat it, and yet of so much importance do I deem the subject that I risk the danger of being thought monotonous by referring to the causes and suggesting remedies for the removal of these defects. What voices lack most of all, as a rule, is expression; and, of course, without expression we have nothing, considering that expression is to all things the life which gives them being. The great philosophical orator and educator, Victor Cousin, has given us these beautiful words of wisdom: "The great law that governs all others is expression. Every work of art that does not express an idea signifies nothing; in addressing itself to such or such a sense, it must penetrate to the mind, to the soul, and bear thither a thought, a sentiment capable of touching or elevating it." This expresses my views exactly in reference to the duty of the speaker in producing voice. He should produce tones that represent ideas - he should explain by the tones of the voice the meaning of the words spoken. If he fails to do this, he merely utters words instead of speaking thoughts. If expression is necessary in arts such as painting, sculpture, and music, how essential must it then be in that greatest of all arts - speech. I trust my reader will not immediately take issue with me and exclaim that speech is not an art - that it is natural - for I believe if he will hear me with patience until the end, he will agree with me that speech is an art, and not only that it is an art, but that it is the art of the fine arts. It must be remembered that the writer alone is responsible for this work, that the opinions are only those of one man and may differ materially from those of many other men, but nothing is set down except after painstaking investigation and research extending over an active professional experience, in the classroom and on the platform and stage, of over thirty years, and that his instructions regarding the production and control of breath, voice, and speech have been carefully tested during that time, in many a class and upon many a platform. The aim of the author is to show not only that all may possess a pleasing and expressive speaking voice, but also how it may be obtained. With this idea in view many specific exercises are given instead of general rules, for remedying vocal defects. With these few introductory remarks I hopefully send my little work into the world to speak for itself.

Author : Edwin Gordon Lawrence
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2016-05-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781355844631

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Author : Edwin Gordon Lawrence
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230213361

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... A STUDY OF LONGFELLOW EDWIN G. LAWRENCE A lecture delivered in New York, under the auspices of the Department of Education of the City of New York, in 1906. There is much diversity of opinion concerning the degree of greatness belonging to Longfellow as a poet, but all agree as to the beauty, purity, and sweetness of his songs. If his flights are not of the soaring kind that pierce the clouds, they never descend to the depths of darkness. He wrote nothing that could by any possible means injure his fellowman, but, on the contrary, imbued his words with the spirit that cheers, strengthens, and uplifts. We can go to him as to a friend with whom it is a delight to commune, and we will leave him feeling refreshed, encouraged, and improved. As a man, he was the personification of nobility; and as a poet, he is the most beloved singer of the English tongue. In both these capacities let us consider him. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, February 27, 1807, and died in Cambridge, Mass; March 24, 1882. He was of pure New England ancestry, tracing his descent through his mother, Zilpah Wadsworth, in an unbroken line back to John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of the original Plymouth colony. In boyhood he was kind, refined, and trustworthy, showing a strong love for the quietly beautiful in nature, humanity, and literature. He had no liking for evil in any form and escaped, apparently without an effort, the many perils that beset a youth. He lacked passionate intensity, being only in sympathy with what was beautifully emotional, preserving, at the same time, its purity and goodness. His literary growth was gradual, but firm; rising by successive steps from his early verses to the sweetly beautiful "Evangeline," and such...