The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity In Early Modern England

Author : Michael Ullyot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192666048

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The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England by Michael Ullyot Pdf

In this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a recursive cycle driven by rhetoricians' words and readers' actions; and second, that positive moral examples are not replicable, but rather aspirational models of readers' posthumous biographies. For example, Alexander the Great envied Achilles less for his exemplary life than for Homer's account of it. Ullyot defines the three types of decorum on which exemplary rhetoric and imitation rely, and charts their operations through Philip Sidney's poetics, Edmund Spenser's poetry, and the dedications, sermons, elegies, biographies, and other occasional texts about Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, and Henry, Prince of Wales. Ullyot expands the definition of occasional texts to include those that criticize their circumstances to demand better ones, and historicizes moral exemplarity in the contexts of sixteenth-century Protestant memory and humanist pedagogy. The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England concludes that all exemplary subjects suffer from the problem of metonymy, the objection that their chosen excerpts misrepresent their missing parts. This problem also besets historicist literary criticism, ever subject to corrections from the archive, so this study concedes that its own rhetorical methods are exemplary.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134172870

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Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jennifer Richards,Alison Thorne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134172863

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Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England by Jennifer Richards,Alison Thorne Pdf

Rhetoric has long been a powerful and pervasive force in political and cultural life, yet in the early modern period, rhetorical training was generally reserved as a masculine privilege. This volume argues, however, that women found a variety of ways to represent their interests persuasively, and that by looking more closely at the importance of rhetoric for early modern women, and their representation within rhetorical culture, we also gain a better understanding of their capacity for political action. Offering a fascinating overview of women and rhetoric in early modern culture, the contributors to this book: examine constructions of female speech in a range of male-authored texts, from Shakespeare to Milton and Marvell trace how women interceded on behalf of clients or family members, proclaimed their spiritual beliefs and sought to influence public opinion explore the most significant forms of female rhetorical self-representation in the period, including supplication, complaint and preaching demonstrate how these forms enabled women from across the social spectrum, from Elizabeth I to the Quaker Dorothy Waugh, to intervene in political life. Drawing upon incisive analysis of a wide range of literary texts including poetry, drama, prose polemics, letters and speeches, Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England presents an important new perspective on the early modern world, forms of rhetoric, and the role of women in the culture and politics of the time.

Author : Megan Matchinske
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521508674

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Women Writing History in Early Modern England by Megan Matchinske Pdf

This title investigates and documents fascinating accounts written by 17th-century Englishwomen, which explore the shifting relationships between past and future.

Author : Natacha Klein Käfer,Natália da Silva Perez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031447310

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Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe by Natacha Klein Käfer,Natália da Silva Perez Pdf

This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The practices of Jane Lumley in England, Camila Herculiana in Padua, Victorine de Chastenay in Paris, as well as Elisabeth Sophie Marie and Philippine Charlotte in Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, will help us to exemplify the delicate balance between audacity and obedience that women had to employ to be able to explore science, literature, philosophy, theology, and other types of learned activities. Cases range from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, presenting continuities and discontinuities across temporal and geographical lines of the strategies that women used to protect their knowledge production and retain intact their reputations as good Christian daughters, wives, and mothers. Taken together, the essays show how having access to privacy—the ability to regulate access to themselves while studying and learning—was a crucial condition for the success of the knowledge activities these women pursued. This is an open access book.

Author : Islam Issa,Angelica Duran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192844743

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Milton Across Borders and Media by Islam Issa,Angelica Duran Pdf

This edited volume explores the combination of cultural phenomena that have established and canonized the work of John Milton in a global context, from interlingual translations to representations of Milton's work in verbal media, painting, stained glass, dance, opera, and symphony.

Author : Matthew Rowley,Marietta van der Tol
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040031889

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A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought, Volume I by Matthew Rowley,Marietta van der Tol Pdf

This first volume of A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought provides a window into the early Protestant world, and the ways in which Protestants wrestled with politics and religion in the wake of the Reformation. This period saw political authorities and church hierarchies challenged and defended by scholars, clerics, and laypeople alike. The volume engages the full spectrum of Protestants, with reference to theology, geography, ethnicity, historical importance, socio-economic background, and gender. This diversity highlights how Protestants felt pulled towards differing political positions and used several maps to chart their course – conscience, custom, history, ecclesiastical tradition, and the laws of God, nature, nation, or community. On most important issues, Protestants lined up on opposing sides. Additionally, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox political thought, as well as interactions with Jewish and Muslim texts and thinkers, profoundly influenced different directions taken in the history of Protestant political thought. Even as our own time is fraught with deep disagreement and political polarisation, so too was early modern Europe, and we might read it in the anxieties, uncertainties, hopes, and expectations that the sources vividly express. This sourcebook will enrich both research and classroom teaching in politics, theology, and history, whether geared towards general political or religious history, or towards more specialised courses on colonialism, warfare, gender, race or religious diversity.

Author : Markku Peltonen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139851909

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Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England by Markku Peltonen Pdf

Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England provides an account of the political thought and culture of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It examines the centrality of humanist rhetoric in the pre-revolutionary educational system and its vital contribution to the political culture of the period. Humanism, Markku Peltonen argues, was crucial to the development of the participatory character of English politics as schoolboys were taught how to speak about taxation and foreign policy, liberty and tyranny. A series of case studies illustrates how pre-revolutionary Englishmen used the rhetorical tools their schoolmasters had taught them in political and parliamentary debates. The common people and the multitude were the orator's chief audience and eloquence was often seen as a popular art. However, there were also those who followed these developments with growing dismay and Peltonen examines further the ways in which populist elements in political rhetoric were questioned in pre-revolutionary England.

Author : Alexander Gelley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804724903

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Unruly Examples by Alexander Gelley Pdf

These 2 essays demonstrate that, beyond example's rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and ethics in literature and philosophy.

Author : Joanne Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108490177

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Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought by Joanne Paul Pdf

The first comprehensive study of early modern English political counsel and its association with the discourse of sovereignty.

Author : Paulina Kewes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0873282191

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The Uses of History in Early Modern England by Paulina Kewes Pdf

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Author : Timothy Hampton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501711183

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Writing from History by Timothy Hampton Pdf

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Author : Nancy S. Struever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317063278

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Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe by Nancy S. Struever Pdf

Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe. Although the range of theoretical approaches and methodologies represented here is diverse, the essays collectively explore the theories and practices, innovations and interventions, that underwrite the shared concerns of medicine, moral philosophy, and rhetoric: care and consolation, reading, policy, and rectitude, signinference, selfhood, and autonomy-all developed and refined at the intersection of areas of inquiry usually thought distinct. From Italy to England, from the sixteenth through to the mid-eighteenth century, early modern moral philosophers and essayists, rhetoricians and physicians investigated the passions and persuasion, vulnerability and volubility, theoretical intervention and practical therapy in the dramas, narratives, and disciplines of public and private cure. The essays are relevant to a wide range of readers, including cultural, literary, and intellectual historians, historians of medicine and philosophy, and scholars of rhetoric.

Author : Dr. Katherine MacDonald
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781905981113

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Biography in Early Modern France, 1540-1630 by Dr. Katherine MacDonald Pdf

When the famous Royal Professor of Philosophy and Eloquence, Petrus Ramus (1515-1572), gave a lecture, one of his most promising pupils stood by, ready to tug on his coat if he made a mistake. That pupil was Ramus' future biographer Nicolas de Nancel (1539-1610), who recounted this anecdote in his Vita Rami (1599). Nancel's insertion of himself into his portrayal of Ramus' life is typical of early modern biographies of men of letters. The first study of biography in 16th-century France, this groundbreaking book offers valuable insights into biography's role as a form of social and cultural negotiation geared to advance the biographer's career.

Author : Jonathan E. Lux
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030840327

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The Invention of China in Early Modern England by Jonathan E. Lux Pdf

The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals used the utopian ideal of China to license all kinds of progressive innovation before chronicling how England’s growing commerce in southeast Asia radically changed China’s representation in the English discourse community. For the new community of English merchants proposing to trade in Chinese goods, China became the seminal example in the growing discourse community of English Orientalism. It was an absolute or arbitrary authoritarian state, associated with crooked business dealings, and cloaked in a rhetoric of secrecy and exclusion—a dangerous exception to the traditions, values, and identities of the emergent English speaking states. Finally, the book points out some of the ways that contemporary English language sources continue to represent this early modern English thought tradition, labelling the complexities of modern China with analytical vocabulary perhaps better suited to the pressing political anxieties of the seventeenth century.