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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... 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.
... feeling or impulse . ' But ' emotion ' ( not used until 1660 ) emphasizes the stirring or exciting of a mental state ( OED 4a ) . It comes from the Latin emoveo , ' I move out , ' and emota , ' stirred , ' related to the verb moveo ...
... feeling of sympathy ( sympathia ) ' is like the attun- ement between ' strings of two different lyres , that ... blend and respond to each other . ' He who can ' bend ' his soul to ' the afflictions ' of another helps him most . 45 44 ...
... feels torn between her desire to win honour by standing alone and her duty to keep company with Adam. Counsellors try ... feel compelled by reason, they are profoundly unhappy, and, in a sense, unpersuaded because they are unhappy. When ...
... feels pity for the condemned . Adam and Eve are similarly unmoved by rational arguments not to eat of the fruit ( PLIX.776–9 , 908– 10 , 998-9 ) . In resisting pressure , these characters articulate interior , if inchoate , feelings ...
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