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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... social , functional pressures that affect time , action , and emotion.25 ... I argue , however , that sixteenth - century and seventeenth - century pam- phlets , treatises , and literary works that contrast the intense emotion of the ...
... social and interior spaces . The mind uses a social discourse but speaks to itself . Milton's relation to honour dramatizes the differences between his socio - political , historical position and Sidney's . He , like many other sev ...
... social, functional pressures that affect time, action, and emotion.25 I argue, however, that sixteenth-century and seventeenthcentury pamphlets, treatises, and literary works that contrast the intense emotion of the man of honour with ...
... social processes . Even emotions and instincts are studied insofar as they ' are produced in a particular , historically specific social formation ' ( 21 ) . As Maus astutely observes , the belief that there is no transhistorical self ...
... social identities . But how do friends negotiate between frameworks ? Classical and Prot- estant writers debate about how friends should treat those who deviate from social good . Cicero ( whom Renaissance writers drew on for human- ist ...
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