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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... Quintilian takes a different approach and recommends moving the judges' emotions to distract them from the 'contemplation of the truth.'9 Protestant writers on rhetoric are troubled by the clash of arguments. John Rainolds (1570s) lists ...
... Quintilian's arguments for excluding mere display on the grounds that 'many other things have the power of persuasion, such as money, influence, the authority and rank of the speaker, or even some sight unsupported by language, when for ...
... Quintilian, for example, links the ability to move the emotions to the power of imagining vividly the details of an action.27 He praises the power of phantasiai or visiones to make things absent present to the imagination with such ...
... Quintilian links phantasiae to such vices of the mind as idleness, fantastic hopes, and daydreams. Nevertheless, he suggests, 'it may be possible to turn this vice of the mind to some profit' (hos animi vitium ad utilitatem non ...
... Quintilian's valorization of heightened descriptions raises a problem for my interpretation of the Defence. Quintilian advocates using emotion not only to compel 'the judge to the conclusion toward which the nature of the facts lead him ...
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Sidneys New Arcadia | |
The Vehement versus the Mild Style in Miltons Early Prose | |
Spiritual Warfare and Rhetorical Agon in Paradise Lost | |
Cause and Cure of Fallen Emotion | |
8 Marriage as a Site of Counsel in Marriage Handbooks Miltons Divorce Pamphlets and Paradise Lost | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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