Rethinking elocution: The trope of the talking book and other figures of speech

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 325-341

  Conquergood, Dwight ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early American performance; Elocution; Minstrelsy; Performance history; Slave narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883115426     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462930009366308     Document Type: Article

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