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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... identifies their status as aristocratic. The New Arcadia uses these topoi along with the Politics to represent emotions of rivalry that cause rebellion (stasis) against the monarch. These emotions become one-sided in flatterers.
... political, historical position and Sidney's. He, like many other seventeenth-century Protestants, redefines norms of honour in egalitarian terms. He despises titles of degree, remarking in the Prolusions, 'But indeed to any such ...
... (Politics 1302a39).15 Sidney draws on Rainolds's com- ment and Aristotle's analysis of the way competition for honour creates faction in representing how the conflict between Euarchus and his son and nephew during the trial threatens to ...
... political ends. He gives energy to invective by using it for epistemological and ethical purposes. At the same time, he defines a range of speeches, including mild ones, appropriate to different audiences. Friends, on the other hand ...
... (Politics 1302a39).15 Sidney draws on Rainolds's comment and Aristotle's analysis of the way competition for honour creates faction in representing how the conflict between Euarchus and his son and nephew during the trial threatens to ...
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