Gilbert Austin's "Chironomia" Revisited

Gilbert Austin's
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9780809337682
ISBN-13 : 0809337681
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Gilbert Austin's "Chironomia" Revisited by : Sara Newman

This first book-length study of Irish educator, clergyman, and author Gilbert Austin as an elocutionary rhetor investigates how his work informs contemporary scholarship on delivery, rhetorical history and theory, and embodied communication. Authors Sara Newman and Sigrid Streit study Austin’s theoretical system, outlined in his 1806 book Chironomia; or A Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery—an innovative study of gestures as a viable, independent language—and consider how Austin’s efforts to incorporate movement and integrate texts and images intersect with present-day interdisciplinary studies of embodiment. Austin did not simply categorize gesture mechanically, separating delivery from rhetoric and the discipline’s overall goals, but instead he provided a theoretical framework of written descriptions and illustrations that positions delivery as central to effective rhetoric and civic interactions. Balancing the variable physical elements of human interactions as well as the demands of communication, Austin’s system fortuitously anticipated contemporary inquiries into embodied and nonverbal communication. Enlightenment rhetoricians, scientists, and physicians relied on sympathy and its attendant vivacious and lively ideas to convey feelings and facts to their varied audiences. During the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries, as these disciplines formed increasingly distinct, specialized boundaries, they repurposed existing, shared communication conventions to new ends. While the emerging standards necessarily diverged, each was grounded in the subjective, embodied bedrock of the sympathetic, magical tradition.

Gilbert Austin's "Chironomia" Revisited

Gilbert Austin's
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Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
Total Pages : 236
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780809337675
ISBN-13 : 0809337673
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Gilbert Austin's "Chironomia" Revisited by : Sara Newman

This first book-length study of Irish educator, clergyman, and author Gilbert Austin as an elocutionary rhetor investigates how his work informs contemporary scholarship on delivery, rhetorical history and theory, and embodied communication. Authors Sara Newman and Sigrid Streit study Austin’s theoretical system, outlined in his 1806 book Chironomia; or A Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery—an innovative study of gestures as a viable, independent language—and consider how Austin’s efforts to incorporate movement and integrate texts and images intersect with present-day interdisciplinary studies of embodiment. Austin did not simply categorize gesture mechanically, separating delivery from rhetoric and the discipline’s overall goals, but instead he provided a theoretical framework of written descriptions and illustrations that positions delivery as central to effective rhetoric and civic interactions. Balancing the variable physical elements of human interactions as well as the demands of communication, Austin’s system fortuitously anticipated contemporary inquiries into embodied and nonverbal communication. Enlightenment rhetoricians, scientists, and physicians relied on sympathy and its attendant vivacious and lively ideas to convey feelings and facts to their varied audiences. During the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries, as these disciplines formed increasingly distinct, specialized boundaries, they repurposed existing, shared communication conventions to new ends. While the emerging standards necessarily diverged, each was grounded in the subjective, embodied bedrock of the sympathetic, magical tradition.

Chirologia

Chirologia
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Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 1498056911
ISBN-13 : 9781498056915
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Chirologia by : John Bulwer

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1644 Edition.

A Manual of Gesture

A Manual of Gesture
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Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433046082966
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Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis A Manual of Gesture by : Albert M. Bacon

Legal Emblems and the Art of Law

Legal Emblems and the Art of Law
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9781107035997
ISBN-13 : 1107035996
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Legal Emblems and the Art of Law by : Peter Goodrich

The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history of the emblem tradition as a juridical genre, along with the concept of, and training in, obiter depicta, in things seen along the way to judgment. It argues that these books depict norms and abuses in classically derived forms that become the visual standards of governance. Despite the plethora of vivid figures and virtual symbols that define and transmit law, contemporary lawyers are not trained in the critical apprehension of the visible. This book is the first to reconstruct the history of the emblem tradition, evidencing the extent to which a gallery of images of law already exists and structuring how the public realm is displayed, made present and viewed.

Gesture

Gesture
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 0521542936
ISBN-13 : 9780521542937
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Gesture by : Adam Kendon

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The Player's Passion

The Player's Passion
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0472082442
ISBN-13 : 9780472082445
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Player's Passion by : Joseph R. Roach

Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage

Monna Vanna A Play in Three Acts

Monna Vanna A Play in Three Acts
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Total Pages : 176
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Synopsis Monna Vanna A Play in Three Acts by : Maurice Maeterlinck