Until recent years oratory was considered a fundamental component
of the literature of a nation, and a liberal education implied a
knowledge of the great speakers and their principal speeches no
less than of the important poems, plays and prose works. For some
time, however, the study of literature has been reduced in many
places to just two genres: poetry and prose fiction; but of late
literary studies have expanded considerably, to include speeches,
children's and juvenile literature, historiography, diaries and
journals, memoirs, letters, science and fantasy fiction - even
graffiti and inscriptions.Increasingly, papers on Commonwealth
speakers are heard at national and international conferences and
found in scholarly journals, and the speeches of famous persons are
studied with the same intensity as their imaginative works. As a
result, rhetorical theories and communication studies have
developed rapidly in order to better evaluate speeches, or public
address. The papers included in this collection suggest the range
of studies of Commonwealth public address: historical, comparative,
analytical and survey. They examine the effectiveness of some of
the major figures in world affairs: G K Goldhale and B G Tilak
(India); Jessie Street and R G Menzies (Australia); Maurice Bishop
(Grenada) and Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham (Guyana). In
addition, they consider African and Canadian oratory and the
relationship of speeches to history and politics, concluding with a
proposed canon of Commonwealth public address.
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