Arabic Oration: Art and Function

Arabic Oration: Art and Function
Author: Tahera Qutbuddin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2019-06-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004395806

Winner of the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award (category: Arab Culture in Other Languages) Browse a preview of Arabic Oration: Art and Fuction. In Arabic Oration: Art and Function, a narrative richly infused with illustrative texts and original translations, Tahera Qutbuddin presents a comprehensive theory of this preeminent genre in its foundational oral period, 7th-8th centuries AD. With speeches and sermons attributed to the Prophet Muḥammad, ʿAlī, other political and military leaders, and a number of prominent women, she assesses types of orations and themes, preservation and provenance, structure and style, orator-audience authority dynamics, and, with the shift from an oral to a highly literate culture, oration’s influence on the medieval chancery epistle. Probing the genre’s echoes in the contemporary Muslim world, she offers sensitive tools with which to decode speeches by mosque-imams and political leaders today.

The Sir Winston Method

The Sir Winston Method
Author: James C. Humes
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Total Pages: 189
Release: 1991
Genre: Leadership.
ISBN: 9780688102241

A former presidential speechwriter draws on the experiences and techniques of Winston Churchill and American politicians to provide a practical guide to preparing and delivering business speeches

Oration on the Dignity of Man

Oration on the Dignity of Man
Author: Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1596983019

An ardent treatise for the Dignity of Man, which elevates Humanism to a truly Christian level. This translation of Pico della Mirandola's famed "Oration," hitherto hidden away in anthologies, was prepared especially for Gateway Editions, making it available for the first time in a stand-alone volume. The youngest son of the Prince of Mirandola, Pico lived during the Renaissance, an era of change and philosophical ferment. The tenacity with which he clung to fundamental Christian teachings while crying out against his brilliant though half-pagan contemporaries made him exceptional in a time of exceptional men. While Pico, as Russell Kirk observes in his introduction, was an ardent spokesman for the "dignity of man," his devout nature elevated humanism to a truly Christian level, which makes his writing as pertinent today as it was in the fifteenth century.

Life of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola. Oration

Life of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola. Oration
Author: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
Publisher: I Tatti Renaissance Library
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2022
Genre: Philosophical anthropology
ISBN: 9780674023420

"This volume contains Gianfrancesco Pico's Life of his uncle Giovanni Pico and also Giovanni's Oration. Gianfrancesco's Life opens a collection that omits Giovanni's Conclusions but includes the speech that we - unlike Pico - know as an Oration on the Dignity of Man. He wrote the Oration to introduce the Conclusions, but his nephew's editorial decision cut the theses off from the speech that their author had connected with them. Several times in the Oration, the orator mentioned "theorems" to be proposed in the Conclusions: he clearly saw the book and the speech as tools for the same task. Either Gianfrancesco missed his uncle's intentions, which seems unlikely, or he meant to seal off his other writings - including the Oration - from a book that he found embarrassing for himself and his relative and too risky to make public. This is the fact of the matter: Gianfrancesco left the Conclusions unpublished while publishing the Oration in a collection introduced by his Life. Both the speech and the biography are presented here, in this edition, in the same way - apart from the Conclusions: this reflects the situation in 1496 and respects Gianfrancesco's choice, even though his decision blocked understanding of the speech for many years. Today, with access to all the relevant texts in many versions, readers can move from one work to another as needed"--

Ethics and the Orator

Ethics and the Orator
Author: Gary Remer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 022643916X

Prologue: Quintilian and John of Salisbury in the Ciceronian tradition -- Rhetoric, emotional manipulation, and morality: the contemporary relevance of Cicero vis-a-vis Aristotle -- Political morality, conventional morality, and decorum in Cicero -- Rhetoric as a balancing of ends: Cicero and Machiavelli -- Justus Lipsius, morally acceptable deceit, and prudence in the Ciceronian tradition -- The classical orator as political representative: Cicero and the modern concept of representation -- Deliberative democracy and rhetoric: Cicero, oratory, and conversation

Select Orations

Select Orations
Author: Gregory of Nazianzus
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813212073

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Orations

Orations
Author: Demosthenes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1757
Genre:
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Melanchthon: Orations on Philosophy and Education

Melanchthon: Orations on Philosophy and Education
Author: Philipp Melanchthon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999-04-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521586771

This volume, first published in 1999, presents a translated and wide-ranging selection of Melanchthon's influential academic orations.

The Athenian Funeral Oration

The Athenian Funeral Oration
Author: David M. Pritchard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2024-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009413066

In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this genre. Her The Invention of Athens showed how it reminded the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux demonstrated how each speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for two centuries. But The Invention of Athens was far from complete. This volume brings together top-ranked experts to finish Loraux's book. It answers the important questions about the numerous surviving funeral speeches that she ignored. It also undertakes a comparison of the funeral oration with other genres that is missing in her famous book. What emerges is a speech that had a much greater political impact than Loraux thought. This volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.