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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... Civile Conversation and Sidney's Old Arcadia 20 3 Poetry as Orator and Physician in Sidney's Defence 54 4 The Politics of Emotion in Hospitality , Rivalry , and Erotic Love : Sidney's New Arcadia 76 5 Anger as an Instrument of Justice ...
... Civile Conversation ( 1574 ; English translation , 1581 ) , tells his friend that he finds only pain and subjection in courtly society , whereas solitude allows him to recover his liberty . William , a former warrior and courtier ...
... Civile Conversation, warns that in solitude 'corrupt humours, covertly lurking, with more force consume, and destroy the faire pallace of your minde' (1.18). Sidney's and Milton's literary works represent characters whose solitude ...
... Civile Conversation and Sidney's Old Arcadia Introduction Renaissance rhetoricians entertained powerful fantasies that eloquence could compel people to follow the laws , as Wayne A. Rebhorn has amply demonstrated . ' Anto Maria de ...
... Civile Conversation ( 1574 ) advocates accepting the differences of others . Guazzo's text , as we shall see , greatly illuminates the Old Arcadia.8 7 10 Because scholars have focused on the power of the humanist adviser's rhetoric to ...
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