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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... analyse from the more common Renaissance term ' passion . ' The OED ( 2 ) defines passion as ' any strong , controlling , or overpowering emotion , as desire , hate , fear , etc. , an intense feeling or Counselling the Unstable Self 7.
... desire ... of vengeance . ' He emphasizes the ' incomodities ' of anger , such as ' lacke of appetitie , ' and ' lacke of slepe , ' along with ' frozne dysdayne ' and ' hatred of others ' that damage reputation.39 Other humanists draw ...
... desire responds , ' Give me some food , ' that cry expresses the ten- sion between love of body and love of soul that characterizes much Neo- platonism . The Arcadias boldly strive to synthesize the disparate ideals of Neopla- tonic ...
... desires for upward mobility. Neverthe- less, the desire for upward mobility comes into conflict with a Protestant emphasis on 'overcoming evil' 'with good,' 'and by small /Accomplish- ing great things, by things deem'd weak /Subverting ...
... desire to be alone. More- over, Satan, like the tyrants and manipulators in the New Arcadia, insinuates one-sided topoi into Eve's thinking, facilitating her fall. Counsel becomes dangerous when a listener such as Eve, baffled by con ...
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