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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... Sidney's Old Arcadia 20 3 Poetry as Orator and Physician in Sidney's Defence 54 4 The Politics of Emotion in Hospitality , Rivalry , and Erotic Love : Sidney's New Arcadia 76 5 Anger as an Instrument of Justice : The Vehement versus the ...
... Sidney's character Boulon asks , ' what can breed more peevish incongruities / Than man to yield to female lamentations ? ' 2 Writings on emotion in this period seek to prevent dissolution into effeminate tears . They attempt ' to ...
... Sidney's . He , like many other sev- enteenth - century Protestants , redefines norms of honour in egalitarian terms . He despises titles of degree , remarking in the Prolusions , ' But indeed to any such nickname as " Lord ” or “ Lady ...
... Sidney's Huguenot friend , Philippe Duplessis - Mornay , and partially translated into English by Sidney , 1 traces the progress of the soul : ' And like as from the earth wee have styed up too the ayre , and from the ayre too the skye ...
... Sidney represent aristocratic male characters who displace their search for honour into the pursuit of noble women and express their feelings in idealized Neoplatonic and courtly terms . Astrophil , Sidney's hero in the sonnet sequence ...
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