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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... of obsolete letters such as the long ' s , ' and I have transliterated ' i ' as ' j ' and ' j ' as ' ï ' in accordance with modern practice . Middle ' u's have become ' v's and ' v's have become ' u's following modern English usage .
... become ' angry with those who ridicule , mock , and scoff at them , for this is an insult ' to their honour ( 2.11 , 1379a ) . Juan Luis Vives takes Aristotle's characterizations a step further , arguing that ' anger without insult is ...
... becomes acceptable . The Roman Catholic humanist 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 ...
... becomes dangerous when a listener such as Eve, baffled by con- flicting emotions, seeks relief in solitude. Chapter 8 addresses the need for mutual counsel in marriage and friendship to heal metaphysical sol- itude. Like the Arcadias ...
... becomes capable of leading the other away from one-sided solitary emotion. Sixteenth-century humanist and Protestant psychologies80 (and to some extent their seventeenth-century counterparts) denounce solitude for engendering treason ...
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