Autore
Santangelo, Federico

Titolo
L'oratoria politica di Enoch Powell
Periodico
La cultura
Anno: 2019 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 87 - Pagina finale: 100

This paper offers a discussion of the political oratory of J. Enoch Powell (1912-1998) by focusing on four major speeches: an intervention in the House of Commons debate on the Hola Camp affair (July 1959), a lecture given at Trinity College Dublin (November 1964), an address to the Royal Society of St George in London (April 1964), and the so-called 'Rivers of Blood speech' (Birmingham, April 1968). Powell was a widely sought after speaker, and published ample selections of his speeches in volumes that played a significant role in establishing his standing as one of the most prominent and divisive politicians of his generation. His speeches were not just powerful tools of persuasion and consensus-building: they afforded opportunities to articulate weighty ideological propositions and were facets of a complex self-representation strategy. Before entering politics Powell had been a distinguished Hellenist. This study assesses the extent of the classical legacy in his speeches, both in formal and ideological terms.



SICI: 0393-1560(2019)1<87:LPDEP>2.0.ZU;2-2
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