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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... Fletcher argues that early modern men feared effeminacy partly because they understood masculine and feminine genders as the extremes on a continuum. 46 They believed that as persons move from one extreme towards the.
... gender. As Constance Jordan argues with regard to the composite Arcadia, the distinctions within the psyche between masculine/ feminine, reason/passion, and ruler/ruled allow characters to act flexibly, drawing on each side of.
... gender or status) become capable of conversations that overcome the onesidedness of solitary life. Because the Arcadia analogizes friendship, marriage, and the psyche to the polity, reconciliation with the different sides of the self ...
... gender and estate create obstacles to honest speech, which presupposes parity. Pamela, as heiress to the throne, controls the relationship between herself and Dorus. Philoclea, younger and more innocent than Pamela, exhibits greater ...
... gender a factor in organizing marriage as a relation of domination and subordination. 107 The centrality of obedience and silence to woman's virtue challenges the possibility of true friendship between men and women. Nevertheless ...
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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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