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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... draw attention to conflicting practices in the systems of rhetorical topoi that shape cogni- tions. Different types of topoi produce specific emotions. The topoi a general uses to inflame anger differ from the topoi humanists use to ...
... draw on Aristotle to emphasize the persons and occasions that give rise to emotion.29 Per- sons become ' angry with those who ridicule , mock , and scoff at them , for this is an insult ' to their honour ( 2.11 , 1379a ) . Juan Luis ...
... draw on Stoic thought to urge independence from the vicissitudes that lead to strong emotion . Lipsius , the Dutch Neostoic , declares ( 1586 ) , ' Constancie ... being firme- lie setled against all casualties , neither puffed up nor ...
... draws minds to her and turns them to good : ' Thy selfe , doest strive all minds that way to love , Who marke in thee what is in thee most fair ; So while thy beautie drawes the heart to love , As fast thy vertue bends that love to good ...
... draw on Plutarch , but go further than he does to warn against caustic language when friends are suffering from misfortune or perturbations . " They encourage advisers to use gen- tle speech . Gentle persuasive strategies are also ...
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