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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... Philoclea's religious arguments against Pyrocles' Stoic wish to perform a self-sacrificing suicide arouse his delight without persuading his action (OA 298.23–4), a sure sign in the- ories of religious rhetoric that vehement discourse ...
... Philoclea and 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 ...
... Philoclea's chastity , the female sign of honour . A desire to avoid shame leads Pyrocles to his arguments advo- cating marriage , not punishment , as the prudent solution . Following Anniball's counsel in The Civile Conversation to use ...
... people to good . Whereas Philanax urges Euarchus to restore Philoclea's honour by executing her lover , Pyrocles , Pyrocles argues that the ' salve of her honour ... must be my marriage and not my death 26 The Imperfect Friend.
... Philoclea has ' a greater portion of beauty ' ( 28.2 ) , implying that s / he has been gloriously effeminized . Though he sorrows over the infection of Cleophila's mind , knowing love is ' so deeply grounded that striving against it did ...
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