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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... Persuasion , and Inwardness 3 2 Unyielding Judge or Gentle Physician ? The Friend as Counsellor in Guazzo's The Civile Conversation and Sidney's Old Arcadia 20 3 Poetry as Orator and Physician in Sidney's Defence 54 4 The Politics of ...
... Persuasion , and Inwardness While Homeric heroes could lament bitterly , weep , or abandon them- selves to grief without seeming unmanly , warriors in Renaissance rep- resentations of emotion reject such display . As Sir Philip Sidney's ...
... persuasion to impel men's emotions and actions . Shuger shows how arguments move the will and emotions in sacred rhetoric . Rebhorn dem- onstrates that Renaissance texts aimed to empower sovereigns with abso- lute rule over their ...
... persuasion to compel assent. Philip Melanchthon, the great Lutheran humanist and mentor of Sidney's friend Hubert Languet, sharply distinguishes despotic governance, in which the mind coerces the limbs to move or be still, from ...
... persuade Pyrocles, whose 'mind was all this while so fixed upon another devotion that he no more attentively marked his friend's discourse than the child that hath leave to play marks the last part of his lesson' (OA 20.31–3). The ...
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