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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... move , stir ' ) that is used figuratively to mean ' move , influence , affect , excite , or inspire . ' Rhetoricians writing in Latin use this verb to refer to moving the audience's emotions . I use ' emotion ' to refer to what is moved ...
... move emotions and encounters the danger that it may injure rather than curing the patient . Renaissance rhetoricians engaged in a fantasy of power ' that en- throned the orator as ' an emperour of men's minds.'4 As Wayne A. Rebhorn ...
... move in others.46 Lorenzo Valla asks , “ Can a man move his listeners to anger or mercy if he has not himself first felt these passions ? ” , responding that " It cannot be ... So he will not be able to kindle the love of divine things ...
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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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