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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... 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 passions defend them as ...
... fear, anger or aidôs [shame] relates to some perceived attribute of the world “out there” and such emotions are thus ways of seeing and responding to the world.'19 Paster, Rowe, and Floyd-Wilson assert that early modern writers offer ...
... 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.
Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, Milton and Their Conexts Wendy Olmsted. hate , fear , etc. , an intense feeling or impulse . ' But ' emotion ' ( not used until 1660 ) emphasizes the stirring or exciting of a mental state ( OED 4a ) . It ...
... fear , and deeply felt compassion are dangerous . Edmund Spenser's ren- dering of Mercilla's ' piteous ruth ' in The Faerie Queene suggests why . If Mercilla ( Queen Elizabeth ) had been unable to overcome her ' passion , ' she would ...
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