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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... ' ; par- adoxically , he exhorts a gentlewoman : ' Whereas by nature , you are a weake woman in bodie , you will shewe your selfe by reason , a strong man in heart . ” 5 Responding to perceptions that emotions need to be civilized and.
... reason and by honest will is moved to being persuaded.'11 This emphasis on persuading the heart needs to be understood in light of Protestant beliefs in the pri- macy of faith. John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559) ...
... reason ' and results in ' desire ... of vengeance . ' He emphasizes the ' incomodities ' of anger , such as ' lacke of appetitie , ' and ' lacke of slepe , ' along with ' frozne dysdayne ' and ' hatred of others ' that damage reputation ...
... reason ' ( Sonnet 71 , lines 5-7 ) . Her beauty draws minds to her and turns them to good : ' Thy selfe , doest strive all minds that way to love , Who marke in thee what is in thee most fair ; So while thy beautie drawes the heart to ...
... reason, they are profoundly unhappy, and, in a sense, unpersuaded because they are unhappy. When reason (or, for Milton, orthodox doctrine) rules, as it does in Euarchus's han- dling of the trial, it often fails to change the deeper ...
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