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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... Pyrocles, whose 'mind was all this while so fixed upon another devotion that he no more attentively marked his friend's discourse than the child that hath leave to play marks the last part of his lesson' (OA 20.31–3). The existence of ...
... Pyrocles ' and Musidorus's pursuit of inward honour in Neoplatonic terms similar to those one finds in Duplessis - Mornay's De la vérité . These terms permit a contemplative ascent to God that was otherwise attacked by Protestants and ...
... Pyrocles, Musidorus, Philanax, and Basilius are caught between emotions associated with honour, service to the state, and love. Eve feels torn between her desire to win honour by standing alone and her duty to keep company with Adam ...
... Pyrocles ; and Philanax's heart ulti- mately feels pity for the condemned . Adam and Eve are similarly unmoved by rational arguments not to eat of the fruit ( PLIX.776–9 , 908– 10 , 998-9 ) . In resisting pressure , these characters ...
... Pyrocles grants him the victory for his vehement arguments but pleads that he cannot change , because no one can be ... Pyro- cles invokes an alternative discourse to the forceful speech celebrated by classical , Christian , and ...
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