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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... anger , melancholy , fear , and ( erotic ) love , which are rigorously attacked as unhealthful and dan- gerous to the mind . Yet , according to writings on counsel ( literary and otherwise ) , those who would be cured of diseased ...
... anger differ from the topoi humanists use to moderate it.16 Writers from one subculture criticize the norms common in another. So Juan Luis Vives, writing from a Catholic humanist perspec- tive against emotions arising from competition ...
... 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 displeasure from the signs of honour or dishonour done unto them , consisteth the ...
... anger that their worth has been outraged . Paradise Lost brilliantly rewrites classical topoi of emotions and the Homeric / Aristotelian economy of honour to illuminate the psychology of religious controversy . It represents deformed ...
... anger and fear . Elyot , on the other hand , grounds emotion in brotherhood . He bids the reader to consider that ' lyke as he is a man , so is also the other with whome he is angry , ' overcoming the inequality of status that fuels anger ...
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