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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... soul with security than to imbue it with knowledge' (3.2.36). Desiring belief founded in trust, six- teenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant writers ponder how to engage without coercing the assent of troubled friends or ...
... soul to ' the afflictions ' of another helps him most . 45 44 43 ... Shaping emotions in yet another way , religious and courtly writers in the Neoplatonic tradition appeal to a beauty and goodness that can be contemplated by the eyes ...
... soul to the universal beauty of all bodies , so , in the last stage of perfection , it guides the soul from the particular intellect to the universal intellect.'47 Although Bembo acknowledges that sensual love is not in itself worthy ...
... soul ' ( 24.15 ) . Sidney heightens Pyrocles ' language about his emotionality and pain , just as he intensifies the stringency of Musidorus's advice earlier . Musidorus's rigid , control- ling rhetoric penetrates the very sensitive ...
... soul as a comfort in the face of the frustrations the soul encounters when it needs to use the body . Duplessis - Mornay also offers the immortality of the soul as a conso- lation for the fact that good people are grievously afflicted ...
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