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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... Vives, writing from a Catholic humanist perspec- tive against emotions arising from competition for honour in De Anima et Vita (1538), complains that 'human pride and suspicion have multiplied excessively the expressions of contempt ...
... Vives takes Aristotle's characterizations a step further , arguing that ' anger without insult is not possible , ' and later Thomas Hobbes's Human Nature ( 1640 ) goes even further to claim that ' in the pleasure men have , or ...
... Vives discerns a deep affinity between the subject and object of compas- sion . He writes that ' the feeling of sympathy ( sympathia ) ' is like the attun- ement between ' strings of two different lyres , that ... blend and respond to ...
... Vives and ' easily fall to compassion of them who taste of like misery . ' Their complaints ' seem to touch the right tune of their own woes ' ( 43.2-3 , 5-6 ) .84 Their common suffering in the utmost change fortune can produce - the ...
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