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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... that identifies their status as aristocratic. The New Arcadia uses these topoi along with the Politics to represent emotions of rivalry that cause rebellion (stasis) against the monarch. These emotions become one-sided in flatterers.
... flatterers and tyrants, isolating them from others and propelling them into a self-destructive solitude. Whereas criteria of emotion in Aristotle are inter-subjective and social, the New Arcadia poises them between social and interior ...
... Flatterer from a Friend,'66 translated into English in 1603 as The philosophie commonlie called, the morals by Philemon Holland,67 argues that sharp speech differentiates the friend from the flatterer. Elyot claims that a flatterer 'is ...
... flatterers who used deformed topoi of honour to stimulate malice and rage. These topoi become one-sided and open-ended because tyrants and flatterers lack friends who might offer alternative interpretations leading to different emotions ...
... Flatterer from a Friend,' translated into English in 1603 in The philosophie commonlie called, the morals by Philemon Holland and developed in The Civile Conversation and in the French Protestant humanist Pierre de la Primaudaye's The ...
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Sidneys New Arcadia | |
The Vehement versus the Mild Style in Miltons Early Prose | |
Spiritual Warfare and Rhetorical Agon in Paradise Lost | |
Cause and Cure of Fallen Emotion | |
8 Marriage as a Site of Counsel in Marriage Handbooks Miltons Divorce Pamphlets and Paradise Lost | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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