Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    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, 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, Volume 2—Revised A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory; Twenty-Eighth Edition
    Ebook166 pages1 hour

    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

    By Charles Wesley Emerson

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    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

    Related to 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

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Ahead Of Its Time

      Sep 15, 2023

      Ahead Of Its Time
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Complete Sentence

      Oct 26, 2017

      The Complete Sentence
      4 min read

    • Article

      Best Of The Bunch

      May 6, 2021

      Best Of The Bunch
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Language the Poet Knows

      Dec 11, 2018

      The Language the Poet Knows
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Purpose Of Art

      Aug 10, 2020

      The Purpose Of Art
      4 min read

    • Article

      Productive Repetition

      Jan 30, 2019

      In its simplest form, the basic rule of songwriting is to keep your listeners interested all the way through your song. The trick is to hook them from the beginning with a strong opening line, then keep them with you the rest of the way. In most song

      7 min read

    • Article

      Art Matters

      Jun 9, 2020

      The great spiritual writer Thomas Merton once said: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” I was reflecting this statement as we were putting together this issue - centered around the power of art and how it plays a p

      1 min read

    • Article

      EDITOR’S Note

      Dec 14, 2022

      THERE WAS A POINT DURING THE EDITING OF THIS ISSUE’S special section on inspiration when, I must admit, I felt a little overwhelmed by the veritable sea of ideas flooding my e-mail inbox each day, as contributors responded to my invitation to compile

      1 min read

    • Article

      LOOKING ON, Passing By

      Jul 2, 2020

      LOOKING ON, Passing By
      4 min read

    • Article

      Book Briefs

      Nov 3, 2020

      Human beings have written paeans to everything from shadows to nightingales, but few things inspire more admiration in bodhisattvas than compassion. Yet what exactly does compassion, a word used so liberally today, consist of? In Praise of Great Comp

      4 min read

    • Article

      Drifting Toward Wonder: The Millions Interviews Lia Purpura

      Apr 11, 2019

      The associative impulse confirms the deep systems holding us together even if we’re bent on ignoring or destroying those tethers. The post Drifting Toward Wonder: The Millions Interviews Lia Purpura appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Around The Web

      Nov 7, 2020

      The categories of Image, Word, Orientation and Action constitute the main divisions of the Warburg Institute Library and encapsulate its aim: to study the tenacity of symbols and images in European art and architecture (Image, 1st floor); the persist

      1 min read

    • Article

      Noise Is a Drug and New York Is Full of Addicts: We may complain about a defining feature of the city, but we also feed off it.

      Jul 28, 2016

      As soon as the door slams, I slide to the floor in a cross-legged position and hold my breath. The room in which I have just barricaded myself looks a bit like Matilda’s chokey; a single light bulb casts a sickly yellow glow about the room, its walls

      14 min read

    • Article

      Noise Is a Drug and New York Is Full of Addicts

      Mar 30, 2017

      As soon as the door slams, I slide to the floor in a cross-legged position and hold my breath. The room in which I have just barricaded myself looks a bit like Matilda’s chokey; a single light bulb casts a sickly yellow glow about the room, its walls

      14 min read

    • Article

      Be Kind

      Aug 16, 2019

      Be Kind
      6 min read

    • Article

      Poetry In Practice

      Feb 4, 2021

      Various line lengths can be used when writing a poem. You have probably noticed that short lines can create a song-like effect, especially if the lines are heavily enjambed. This device, commonly known as rollover, is the running on of sense of one s

      1 min read

    • Article

      Soul Mining

      Sep 1, 2022

      Soul Mining
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Writing Wisdom of Derek Walcott

      Mar 20, 2017

      “The future happens,” says the philosopher in Derek Walcott’s stage retelling of Homer’s Odyssey, “No matter how much we scream.” Walcott died on Friday at the age of 87—and instead of screaming, I’m feeling grateful towards this great poet, playwrig

      7 min read

    • Article

      What Physics Can Teach Us About Writing Fiction

      Mar 6, 2018

      Sometimes writing fiction feels to me like that oft-used image of a godlike creator: the man pulling the strings of the marionette, orchestrating each fine movement from above the stage. One string might be character, another plot, a third setting, a

      6 min read

    • Article

      Writing The Art

      Mar 2, 2023

      Writing The Art
      4 min read

    • Article

      Learning From Poetic Closure

      Jan 1, 2022

      In the 1980s while scholars were obsessed with theory, I was in a course of study, Japanese language and literature, that barely seemed touched by such heady stuff. Fortunately, one professor offered a graduate class designed to familiarize us with B

      14 min read

    • Article

      Stone’s Throw

      Apr 1, 2021

      Stone’s Throw
      4 min read

    Reviews for 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

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      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 - Charles Wesley Emerson

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Evolution of Expression, Volume 2--Revised, by Charles Wesley Emerson

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: 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

      Author: Charles Wesley Emerson

      Release Date: November 29, 2010 [eBook #34498]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EVOLUTION OF EXPRESSION, VOLUME 2--REVISED***

      E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier,

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      Evolution of Expression

      HENRY WARD BEECHER

      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 II—REVISED

      BOSTON:

      EMERSON COLLEGE OF ORATORY

      Publishing Department

      CHICKERING HALL, HUNTINGTON AVENUE

      1915

      Copyrighted by C. W. Emerson

      1905

      The Barta Press

      Boston

      CONTENTS

      THE PARTS.

      THE ATTRACTIVE OR MELODRAMATIC PERIOD.

      Love took up the harp of life and smote on all the chords with might,

      Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

      Tennyson.

      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 Carlyle—depends upon the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.

      Emerson.

      For use of selections in this volume especial thanks are tendered Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Frederic Lawrence Knowles, Horace Traubel, Secretary Walt Whitman Fellowship, and J. T. Trowbridge.

      CHAPTER I.

      SLIDE.

      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.

      In the history of art this step is marked by the grotesque; the pupil should be encouraged to stand out the points of thought boldly, regardless of artistic effect. This step is of vital importance in all future development, and unless emphasized now, will require constant effort hereafter.

      Sharp contrasts are brought strongly to bear in presenting vividly and distinctly separate points of thought. As the pupil earnestly strives to impress each point of thought, in all its new interest, his voice becomes more decidedly modulated, rising and falling in distinct intervals. Thought of each part as a whole and by contrast, together with the desire to impart it, is reported in varied inflections which add a new charm to expression. Through slides the voice of the speaker may be said to express the tune of the thought.

      Analysis. Example: Tact and Talent. (Page 13.)

      Unit, or Whole: A comparison of Tact and Talent.

      Parts:

      (a) The characteristics of Tact.

      Sub-parts:

      1. Tact is infinitely resourceful. Paragraph 1, etc.

      2. Tact is the power which achieves results. Paragraph 2, etc.

      (Other sub-parts may be enumerated.)

      (b) The characteristics of Talent.

      (A number of sub-parts are embodied.)

      The teacher should view the work of the pupil with special reference to the parts of this selection, leading him to impress these parts, or successive points of thought, upon his audience. The continued antithesis makes this selection a good one for the purpose; parts that are set in contrast easily engage the attention.

      CHAPTER II.

      VITAL SLIDE.

      As the mind of the pupil separates each thought from the other main thoughts of the discourse, and holds it before the minds of his hearers, he finds it more and more attractive. His endeavor to interest others deepens his own interest, and the slides in his voice report this increased concentration, in increased vitality. The pupil seeing the spirit and life of the whole in each vital part, or part vital to the life of the unit, desires to make each part live as a whole in the minds of the listeners. He no longer touches it with uncertain stroke; the slide has become a Vital Slide.

      Analysis. Example: The Rising of 1776. (Page 35.)

      Unit, or Whole: A pastor of early Revolutionary times who makes his Sunday sermon an appeal for freedom.

      Parts:

      (a) The spirit of the times. Stanza 1.

      (b) The church and the people. Stanzas 2 and 3.

      (c) The pastor and his appeal. Stanzas 4, 5, 6 and part of 9.

      (d) The effect of the appeal. Stanzas 7, 8 and 9.

      Let the student's earnest endeavor be to interest his audience in these essential parts. The words which especially reveal these vital parts of the selection will be given with no uncertain stroke. If the interest of both speaker and listener is fully aroused, the slide has become a vital one. Remember always that the desired effect in the voice results from the mental concept; it is not developed mechanically, but grows out of thought.

      CHAPTER III.

      SLIDE IN VOLUME.

      As the mind of the student continues to dwell upon the parts of the subject as separate and distinct wholes, there is gradually developed within him an appreciation of the value of each part. Out of the effort to make each thought live in the minds of the hearers is born the desire to reveal the value of that thought. This desire is reported in the voice through Slide in Volume.

      The significance of the term Volume has been explained in an earlier chapter. The valuable parts that the speaker presents are expressed through inflections that suggest breadth and freedom.

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1