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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... God that was otherwise attacked by Protestants and by Roman Catholic humanists such as Guazzo for interfering with God's commands to serve one's neighbour through action. For my inquiry, Milton's most salient use of Neoplatonic terms of ...
... God, Paradise Lost redirects aspiration away from self-assertion for its own sake and towards the defence of truth. Likewise, the text construes social role in terms of Protestant 'office,' rather than pure Neopla-tonic hierarchy.52 God ...
... God does not 'draw' by external force, but only 'by the inward perswasive motions of his spirit and by his ministers ... [God's] spirit and likeness into' them. This infusion lifts 'out of darksome barrennesse a delicious, and fragrant ...
... God, the Son, and the angels. His overweening rhetoric operates at odds with his humanist emphasis on merit and self-sufficiency. Eve, caught between her conviction that she should not break God's prohibition and her struggle to form a ...
... God, not the monarch and not even lineage, authorizes honour.97 Whereas ordinary honour depends upon the opinion of equals, so that 'a gentleman's honour ... was the essence of his reputation in the eyes of his social equals, providing ...
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Sidneys New Arcadia | |
The Vehement versus the Mild Style in Miltons Early Prose | |
Spiritual Warfare and Rhetorical Agon in Paradise Lost | |
Cause and Cure of Fallen Emotion | |
8 Marriage as a Site of Counsel in Marriage Handbooks Miltons Divorce Pamphlets and Paradise Lost | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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