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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... Gentle Physician? The Friend as Counsellor in Guazzo's The Civile Conversation and Sidney's Old Arcadia 3 Poetry as Orator and Physician in Sidney's Defence 4 The Politics of Emotion in Hospitality, Rivalry, and Erotic Love: Sidney's ...
... gentle speech adapted to the afflicted. In order not to injure those who suffer, Catholic humanists and Protestant writers revise humanist strategies for negotiating emotion, drawing on Plutarch, who writes of the friend as a physician ...
... gentle speech. Gentle persuasive strategies are also articulated in the Protestant humanist Robert Burton's The Anatomy ofMelancholy (1621), whose rhetoric subsumes medical lore under cures by persuasion and conversion, differentiating ...
... gentle speech attentive to the emotions of others, they create a new model of friendship and discover new definitions of honour. Chapter 3 argues that Sidney's A Defence of Poetry (1582–3) develops the model of poetry as a physician or ...
... . Without conversation between friends, the worlds of the Arcadias and Paradise Lost fall into faction, revolution, and the violence of religious warfare. 2 Unyielding Judge or Gentle Physician? The Friend as Counsellor.
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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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