The Imperfect Friend: Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, Milton and Their ConextsUniversity of Toronto Press, 3. 5. 2008 - Počet stran: 293 Many writers in early modern England drew on the rhetorical tradition to explore affective experience. In The Imperfect Friend, Wendy Olmsted examines a broad range of Renaissance and Reformation sources, all of which aim to cultivate 'emotional intelligence' through rhetorical means, with a view to understanding how emotion functions in these texts. In the works of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), John Milton (1608-1674), and many others, characters are depicted conversing with one another about their emotions. While counselors appeal to objective reasons for feeling a certain way, their efforts to shape emotion often encounter resistance. This volume demonstrates how, in Renaissance and Reformation literature, failures of persuasion arise from conflicts among competing rhetorical frameworks among characters. Multiple frameworks, Olmsted argues, produce tensions and, consequently, an interiorized conflicted self. By situating emotional discourse within distinct historical and socio-cultural perspectives, The Imperfect Friend sheds new light on how the writings of Sidney, Milton, and others grappled with problems of personal identity. From their innovations, the study concludes, friendship emerges as a favourite site of counseling the afflicted and perturbed. |
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... Sidney's depen- dence on Aristotle's Rhetoric tacitly implies that poetic arguments are sub- ject to evaluation by audiences . 37 ... Aristotle's fictional example shares many qualities with Sidney's poetic example . Both thinkers ...
... Sidney's and Languet's letters and Pyrocles ' argument in Sidney's Poetic Development ( Cam- bridge : Cambridge University Press , 1967 ) , 17ff . 71 In 1574 , Sidney was charged by his mentor , Hubert Languet , for withdrawing too much ...
... Sidney and Renaissance Political Theory ( Pitts- burgh , PA : Duquesne University Press , 1984 ) , 52 . 12 See William Dinsmore Briggs , ' Sidney's Political Ideas , ' Studies in Philology 29 ( 1932 ) : 534-42 , and Martin Bergbusch ...
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Conflicting Emotional Frameworks | 3 |
Unyielding Judge or Gentle Physician? The Friend as Counsellor | 20 |
Poetry as Orator and Physician in Sidneys Defence | 54 |
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