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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... melancholy , 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 ...
... misfortune or perturbations . " They encourage advisers to use gen- tle speech . Gentle persuasive strategies are also articulated in the Protes- 76 75 tant humanist Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy Counselling the Unstable Self ...
... Melancholy ( 1621 ) , whose rhetoric subsumes medical lore under cures by persuasion and conver- sion , differentiating little between philosophy and religion . ” E. Patricia Vicari comments that ' Burton advocates curing the patient ...
... melancholy ' ( 360.2 ) , and to ' incontinently ' ' thirst for ... blood ' ( 381.15–16 ) . Having become more attached to the person of the king than to his office , Philanax responds to the king's death with a desire to punish the ...
... melancholy or lovesick . Plutarch and La Primaudaye warn that such persons may be injured by forceful rhetoric . Pyrocles follows in their steps when he reproaches Musidorus for his use of Unyielding Judge or Gentle Physician ? 31.
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