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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... Paradise Lost 128 7 Seventeenth - Century Protestant Rhetoric : Cause and Cure of Fallen 146. Emotion 8 Marriage as a Site of Counsel in Marriage Handbooks , Milton's Divorce Pamphlets , and Paradise Lost 175 Conclusion 209 Notes 217 Index ...
... Paradise Lost, where even in Eden human beings have been given freedom to learn, change, and grow, perhaps even into angels.51 Neoplatonism, with its emphasis on aspiring to an ideal, enables Milton's inquiry into the role and dangers ...
... Paradise Lost adapts rhetorical topoi of honour to represent Abdiel, God, and the Son as expressing indignation because their sense of honour and worth have been denigrated by Satan. But, in chapter 7, the figure of Satan as ora- tor in ...
... Paradise Lost. Satan falls by creating a deformed rhetoric of honour-based emotion that imitates perversely the divine agon manifested in the behavior of God, the Son, and the angels. His overweening rhetoric operates at odds with his ...
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