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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... one's own status through lowering the status of another , one slights and dishonours the other , making him angry.1 Renaissance texts on the duel take up these Aristotelian topics . Domenico Mora , for example , praising the duel in Il ...
... one's neighbour through action . For my inquiry , Milton's most salient use of Neoplatonic terms of emo- tion consists in Raphael's widely cited account of the Almighty , ' from whom / All things proceed , and up to him return , / If ...
... one's mind changed ) the most ' honorable ' vir- tues to be ' desired in a prince or noble man ' ( Boke Named the Governour , 72 ) and argues that experience and reason prove that one who lacks mercy has all other vertues ' drowned ...
... one's sense of pleasure ( I.18 ) , even though William claims that he enjoys the ' libertie , ' ' pleasure , ' and ' comfort ' that his ' solitude ' produces ( I.17 ) .6 Anniball discounts William's feelings by arguing that pleasure in ...
... one's rivals . When honour and virtue are understood in humanistic terms , virtue extends beyond prowess to include justice , learning , prudence in counsel , mod- eration of the passions , and benevolence . Love of kindred , love of ...
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