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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... Pamela in the New Arcadia use Aristotelian rhetorical topoi associated with honour to express the anger that identifies their status as aristocratic. The New Arcadia uses these topoi along with the Politics to represent emotions of ...
... Pamela, it exalts their natural nobility during the trial. For example, Pyrocles responds with appropriate rage when Philanax defames him with bitter reproaches, and the implied author notes, 'it was well to be seen his heart was unused ...
... Pamela,' and asking, 'will you now keep the right from your prince who is the only giver of judgement, the key of justice, and life of your laws' (378.6–7, 13–15). Pyrocles refers to his own 'love of justice,' a phrase that sounds ...
... Pamela 'ravishment,' refuses to consider mitigating circumstances such as the character and intentions of Gynecia and the young people.33 Even more striking, he gives such a strict definition to what he calls 'right love,' namely, that ...
... Pamela, and Pyrocles and Philoclea) keep company and use conversation, as Philippe Duplessis-Mornay advises, to know themselves.85 Self-knowledge requires that they correct for the influence of innate self-love (The philosophie, 83, 84) ...
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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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