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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... poet , ' demonstrates a genera- tional difference between the humanist and the courtier.59 McCoy links the contradictions in the social position of the courtier under Elizabeth with Sidney's life and fiction . He shows that in the Old ...
... poet with the ' mythical Orpheus and Amphion ' who tamed wild beasts and brought ' rude and savage people to a more ... poets . Writers ' fears of emotion focus initially on their use in law courts . Aris- totle first rejected appeals to ...
... poet or the writer of A Defence need to be perfect . Far from fashioning himself as a ruler who possesses the absolute power of eloquence , Sidney dramatizes himself as subject to self - love , with a will that distorts his judgment ...
... poet , including Sidney , needs a physician ( 119.11-12 ) . But how do poets heal and not kill ? The Defence stages a series of finely grained arguments to answer this question . The Defence's consciousness of its own defects takes up a ...
... poet ensure that the image he plants moves to good ? Sidney's revisions of classical rhetoric give poetry the power to correct erroneous perceptions of good and evil things . 26 Olmsted_2189_054.fm Page 61 Monday, February 25, 2008 11 ...
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