Circuit Chautauqua Program Brochures: A Study in Social and Intellectual History.

Tapia, John Edward

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ERIC Number: EJ248360

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Publication Date: 1981-May

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Circuit Chautauqua Program Brochures: A Study in Social and Intellectual History.

Tapia, John Edward

Quarterly Journal of Speech, v67 n2 p167-77 May 1981

Analyzes promotional brochures distributed by chautauqua circuits between 1904-1932. Illustrates how chautauqua programs reflected the social-intellectual themes of their time. Provides an understanding of how publicity agents viewed their audiences and modified rhetoric to meet the changing marketplace. (PD)

Descriptors: Advertising, Intellectual History, Pamphlets, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Social Change, Social History, United States History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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