The Imperfect Friend: Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, Milton and Their ConextsUniversity of Toronto Press, 3. 5. 2008 - Počet stran: 400 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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... Cicero ( whom Renaissance writers drew on for human- ist ideals ) insists that when someone turns away from the common good , his friend should use sharp speech to return him to it . Laurie Shannon demonstrates that this frankness of ...
... Cicero and Augustine , who argue that , ' To teach is a necessity , to please is a sweet- ness , to persuade is a victory . ' , 3 However , victory may not be enough . When Musidorus , the hero of Sir Philip Sidney's The Countess of ...
... ' also asks ( to quote him at greater length ) , ' who would teach this who did not also move the emotions . ' He asks whether Cicero could ' have shown the innocence of Roscius Unyielding Judge or Gentle Physician ? 27.
... Cicero's questions for establishing a legal issue in De inventione . Cicero's questions move beyond the issue of fact ( he killed ) to questions of the definition of the fact ( was it murder ? ) to the qualitative issue ( what was the ...
... Cicero.59 ' Cicero's speaker , Laelius , declares “ the most complete agreement in wills , in pursuits , and in opinions ” to be " the whole essence of friendship " ( " Sovereign Amity , ” 41 ) . This agreement must be founded in ...
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