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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... Melanchthon, the great Lutheran humanist and mentor of Sidney's friend Hubert Languet, sharply distinguishes despotic governance, in which the mind coerces the limbs to move or be still, from political gov- ernance, under which 'the ...
... Melanchthon's idea of the natural light . Stillman claims Melanchthon , not Calvin , as Sidney's primary source.23 His claim is sup- ported by the Defence's praise of Melanchthon and Beza as ' famous preachers and teachers ' who ...
... Melanchthon's De modo et arte concionandi ( c . 1537-9 ) urges that preachers should aim at “ renovation and spiritual life ” and insert “ better emotions into the soul . " 39 Sidney's Defence draws on Melanchthon's language , urging ...
... Melanchthon writes that the heart expands with happiness in the presence of good and achieves greater health , whereas ' when the heart is struck by an unwel- come object , ' it is ' constrained , pressed , trembles and languishes with ...
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