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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... shame depend on the opinion of others ( when , for example , Hector refuses to withdraw from battle lest the ' Trojans " should think he did ignobly " ) , Milton bases shame on self- esteem and proper pride.64 I argue that Milton ...
... shame depend on the opinion of others (when, for example, Hector refuses to withdraw from battle lest the 'Trojans “should think he did ignobly”'), Milton bases shame on self-esteem and proper pride.64 I argue that Milton rewrites kinds ...
... . By interpreting these factors, a rhetorician may produce emotions of anger, fear, envy, emulation, shame, and pity. A speaker who wants to anger a person will refer to someone who ( he Unyielding Judge or Gentle Physician? 23.
... shame leads Pyrocles to his arguments advo- cating marriage , not punishment , as the prudent solution . Following Anniball's counsel in The Civile Conversation to use gesture and action to move emotions , Pyrocles and Musidorus also ...
... shame had found him culpable ' ( 278.6 ) and he knows that he has abandoned his responsibility as king and has injured his wife through his desire for Cleophila.38 Hav- ing acknowledged his fault , he addresses the injury he caused his ...
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