Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised

Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised - A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory; Twenty-Eighth Edition

Evolution of Expression BY Charles Wesley Emerson Founder of Emerson College of Oratory A COMPILATION OF SELECTIONS ILLUSTRATING THE FOUR STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT IN ART AS APPLIED TO ORATORY In Four Volumes, with Key to each Chapter TWENTY-EIGHTH EDITION VOLUME IIREVISED The power to detach, and to magnify by detaching, is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet. This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminence of an object, so remarkable in Burke, in Byron, in Carlyledepends upon the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates. Thus far in the student's development, his mind has dealt chiefly with each subject as a Whole. Now he begins to find a new interest in showing his hearers that the discourse is made up of a series of definite Parts. He takes delight in fixing their attention upon each part in succession. As in crossing a brook on stones, a person poises for a moment, first on one stone, then on another, so the speaker balances the minds of his hearers, first on one thought, then another, poising for a moment on each distinct point before leaving it for the next. The teacher should now lead the pupil to attract attention to separate parts as wholes. We are entering the melodramatic stage, where abandon to each part is as necessary as it was in the beginning to the spirit of the whole. The pupil must see the parts and give them to others at any cost. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 34498
Author: Emerson, Charles Wesley
Release Date: Nov 29, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English