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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... Rebhorn's writings have been important to my project, and the broad-reaching, detailed comments of the anonymous readers at the University of Toronto Press made this a better book. I thank Suzanne Rancourt, the Humanities Editor at the ...
... to eloquent words. Wayne A. Rebhorn and Debora K. Shuger show that rhetorical texts celebrate the power of persuasion to impel men's emotions and actions. 9 Shuger shows how arguments move the will and emotions in sacred.
... Rebhorn demonstrates that Renaissance texts aimed to empower sovereigns with absolute rule over their subjects' wills, and Protestant writers agree that law and persuasion coerce action by appealing to 'servile fear.'10 But the latter ...
... Rebhorn has amply demonstrated.1 Anto Maria de' Conti, a Milanese professor of rhetoric writing in the 1550s, claims that only the eloquent speaker 'could have softened and changed the spirits of people so as to force them to obey his ...
... Rebhorn demonstrates, they celebrated the poetorators as the 'first legislators ... and the first polititiens.'5 George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589) identifies the poet with the 'mythical Orpheus and Amphion' who tamed ...
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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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