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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... individualism and solitude, including anger, melancholy, fear, and (erotic) love, which are rigorously attacked as unhealthful and dangerous to the mind. Yet, according to writings on counsel (literary and otherwise), those.
... solitude allows him to recover his liberty. William, a former warrior and courtier, believes that his presence in the court goes 'against the heart' (1.17). Faced with friends who wish to follow the heart, counsellors strive to change ...
... solitude. Whereas criteria of emotion in Aristotle are inter-subjective and social, the New Arcadia poises them between social and interior spaces. The mind uses a social discourse but speaks to itself. Milton's relation to honour ...
... solitude, while Philoclea's religious arguments against Pyrocles' Stoic wish to perform a self-sacrificing suicide arouse his delight without persuading his action (OA 298.23–4), a sure sign in theories of religious rhetoric that ...
... solitude and company in Renaissance treatises on the self, in rhetorical texts, and in the romance writings of Sidney and Milton. It argues that Sidney and Milton revised friends' persuasive strategies in order to facilitate change in.
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Sidneys New Arcadia | |
The Vehement versus the Mild Style in Miltons Early Prose | |
Spiritual Warfare and Rhetorical Agon in Paradise Lost | |
Cause and Cure of Fallen Emotion | |
8 Marriage as a Site of Counsel in Marriage Handbooks Miltons Divorce Pamphlets and Paradise Lost | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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