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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... Plutarch's ' How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend , translated into English in 1603 as The philosophie commonlie called , the morals by Philemon Holland , 67 argues that sharp speech differentiates the friend from the flatterer . Elyot ...
... Plutarch , who writes of the friend as a physician : ' a chirurgian , [ who ] when he maketh [ an ] incision and cutteth the flesh of his patient , had need to use great dexteritie , to have a nimble hand and an even So [ is ] this ...
... Plutarch and rewritten by Protestant writers to engage with the afflicted . These afflicted constitute a distinct audi- ence . Neither attaining the perfection desired by the elect , nor descend- ing to the condition of the reprobate ...
... to ' Be lenient toward the offenses of others . This is the chief virtue of civil- itas ' ( 65 ) .50 Plutarch cautions that a friend must not correct so strin- gently ' that thereby he breake or undo the knot 32 The Imperfect Friend.
... Plutarch's ' How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend , ' translated into English in 1603 in The philosophie commonlie called , the morals by Philemon Holland and developed in The Civile Conversation and in the French Protestant humanist ...
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