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 , Milton and their contexts / Wendy Olmsted . Includes index . ISBN 978-0-8020-9136-9 1. Sidney , Philip , Sir , 1554–1586 – Criticism and interpretation . 2. Milton , John , 1608–1674 – Criticism and interpretation . 3 ...
... Sir Philip 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 ...
... Sir Philip Sidney and John Milton and in their contexts . My book examines how these texts use and teach rhetorical means to cul- tivate emotional intelligence in their readers . I argue that while writers of treatises and handbooks ...
... Sir Philip Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia ( The Old Arcadia ) ( 1579– 81 ) , admonishes his friend Pyrocles for being in love , Pyrocles grants him the victory for his vehement arguments but pleads that he cannot change ...
... Sir Philip Sidney himself.57 Rather than attacking abuses at court directly , The Civile Conversation broadens its criticism to social behaviour more generally . And , instead of attempting to change the court , Anniball focuses his ...
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