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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... virtue . , 69 , 66 65 For this reason , when counsel does not return a person to that virtue , Cicero advises , his friend should break off the friendship . But he also cautions that speech must be used with reason and care ( ratio et ...
... virtue , and when a person errs seriously , his friend is advised to bring him back to virtue or to end the friendship . Musidorus follows this Ciceronian tradition when he threatens to leave Pyrocles . But Pyrocles calls on a different ...
... virtue but ministers to pain , much as Timothie Bright claims to minister to his friend by writing A Treatise of Melancholie ( 1586 ) and Anni- ball in Stephano Guazzo's The Civile Conversation serves William Guazzo , a figure of the ...
... virtue , while advising him to seek the company of equals rather than cultivate superiors . As in The Book of the Courtier , this company includes women , whose conversation ennobles the men who seek their society , and friendship ...
... virtue . Following Plutarch , La Primaudaye advises readers to care for the vulnerable friend : ' if one behold his friend in some great affliction a friend well advised ought then to be beware that he use no sharpe or biting wordes ...
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