Vulgar Eloquence

Author : Sean Keilen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 030011012X

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Vulgar Eloquence by Sean Keilen Pdf

This original book challenges prevailing accounts of English literary history, arguing that English literature emerged as a distinct category during the late sixteenth century, as England’s relationship with classical Rome was suffering an unprecedented strain. Exploring the myths through which poets such as Geffrey Whitney, William Shakespeare, and John Milton understood the nature of their art, Sean Keilen shows how they invented archaic origins for a new kind of writing. When history obliged English poets to regard themselves as victims of the Roman Conquest rather than rightful heirs of classical Latin culture, it also required a redefinition of their relations with Roman literature. Keilen shows how the poets’ search for a new beginning drew them to rework familiar fables about Orpheus, Philomela, and Circe, and invent a new point of departure for their own poetic history.

Author : Peter Elbow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199912896

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Vernacular Eloquence by Peter Elbow Pdf

Since the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized how people think about writing. Now, in Vernacular Eloquence, he makes a vital new contribution to both practice and theory. The core idea is simple: we can enlist virtues from the language activity most people find easiest-speaking-for the language activity most people find hardest-writing. Speech, with its spontaneity, naturalness of expression, and fluidity of thought, has many overlooked linguistic and rhetorical merits. Through several easy to employ techniques, writers can marshal this "wisdom of the tongue" to produce stronger, clearer, more natural writing. This simple idea, it turns out, has deep repercussions. Our culture of literacy, Elbow argues, functions as though it were a plot against the spoken voice, the human body, vernacular language, and those without privilege-making it harder than necessary to write with comfort or power. Giving speech a central role in writing overturns many empty preconceptions. It causes readers to think critically about the relationship between speech, writing, and our notion of literacy. Developing the political implications behind Elbow's previous books, Vernacular Eloquence makes a compelling case that strengthening writing and democratizing it go hand in hand.

Author : Francis Grose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Humor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120018572

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The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose Pdf

This is a fascinating and hilarious collection of all the words that raised eyebrows in the 18th century. The original 1796 alternative dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue' educated readers in the correct usage of colloquialisms, slang and old English idioms.

Author : David Taras,Richard Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429880322

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Power Shift? Political Leadership and Social Media by David Taras,Richard Davis Pdf

Power Shift? Political Leadership and Social Media examines how political leaders have adapted to the challenges of social media, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and memes, among other means of persuasion. Established political leaders now use social media to grab headlines, respond to opponents, fundraise, contact voters directly, and organize their election campaigns. Leaders of protest movements have used social media to organize and galvanize grassroots support and to popularize new narratives: narratives that challenge and sometimes overturn conventional thinking. Yet each social media platform provides different affordances and different attributes, and each is used differently by political leaders. In this book, leading international experts provide an unprecedented look at the role of social media in leadership today. Through a series of case studies dealing with topics ranging from Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump's use of Twitter, to Justin Trudeau's use of selfies and Instagram, to how feminist leaders mobilize against stereotypes and injustices, the authors argue that many leaders have found additional avenues to communicate with the public and use power. This raises the question of whether this is causing a power shift in the relationship between leaders and followers. Together the chapters in this book suggest new rules of engagement that leaders ignore at their peril. The lack of systematic theoretically informed and empirically supported analyses makes Power Shift? Political Leadership and Social Media an indispensable read for students and scholars wishing to gain new understanding on what social media means for leadership.

Author : Colin MacCabe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718794

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The Eloquence of the Vulgar by Colin MacCabe Pdf

In The Eloquence of the Vulgar, the distinguished academic Colin MacCabe reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual in contemporary life. A radical argument emerges from the book's diverse concerns. Cinema and television - the new and democratic art forms of the twentieth century - demand a fundamental rethinking of our concepts of language and culture. What is at stake is the very idea of a liberal and humane education.

Author : Carole Birkan-Berz,Oriane Monthéard,Erin Cunningham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501380471

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Migration and Mutation by Carole Birkan-Berz,Oriane Monthéard,Erin Cunningham Pdf

Spanning four centuries from the Renaissance to today's avant-garde, Migration and Mutation explores how the sonnet has evolved in and out of translation. Contributors examine little-studied translation trajectories in the early modern period, such as the pivotal role of France between Italy and England or the first German sonnets and their Italian, French, Dutch and Scottish origins. Essays then shed new light on major European sonneteers In the 19th and 20th centuries, including Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Rilke and Pessoa, alongside lesser-known contemporaries and with novel approaches. And finally, contributors explore how translation and adaptation create metaphorical space in the 21st century. Migration and Mutation also pays attention to the political or subversive dimension of the sonnet, with essays on women, gay or postcolonial reclaimings of the sonnet and recent experiments such as post-Soviet Sonnets on shirts by Genrikh Sagpir. It takes the sonnet out of the confines of enclosed national traditions bringing it into renewed contact with mostly European, but also other, cultures.

Author : Kenneth Cmiel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520074858

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Democratic Eloquence by Kenneth Cmiel Pdf

"A penetrating account of the long debate about the kind of public language appropriate for a democratic society. . . . Cmiel manages to do justice to both sides."--Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism "Every scholar interested in the English language will put this book next to Mencken and Baugh. It will be indispensable to writing the social history of English into the 20th Century."--Joseph Williams, author of Origins of the English Language

Author : Peter Elbow
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199782505

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Vernacular Eloquence by Peter Elbow Pdf

A writing guide for the twenty-first century, Vernacular Eloquence explores how the variety of ways the spoken word can enhance the written word, drawing on examples from blogs, email, and other recent trends.

Author : Jonathan Hope
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408143742

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Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance by Jonathan Hope Pdf

'This book is nothing short of brilliant. It is bursting with new observations, pithy readings and sensitive analyses. One of Hope's skills is to show us that 'language' is not separable from 'ideas'; both are systems of representation. This is a book about words, conventions, artifice, mythology, innovation, reason, eloquence, silence, control, communication, selfhood, dialect, 'late style' and much, much more. After reading Hope's book you will never read Shakespeare in the same way.' (Professor Laurie Maguire, Magdalen College, Oxford) Our understanding of words, and how they get their meanings, relies on a stable spelling system and dictionary definitions - things which simply did not exist in the Renaissance. At that time, language was speech rather than writing; a word was by definition a collection of sounds not letters - and the consequences of this run deep. They explain our culture's inability to fully appreciate Shakespeare's wordplay and they also account for the rift that opened up between Shakespeare and us as language came to be regarded as essentially 'written'. In Shakespeare and Language, Jonathan Hope considers the ideas about language that separate us from Shakespeare. His comprehensive study explores the visual iconography of language in the Renaissance, the influence of the rhetorical tradition, the extent to which Shakespeare's late style is driven by a desire to increase the subjective content of the text, and contemporary ways of studying his language using computers.

Author : James D. Bloom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812215982

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The Literary Bent by James D. Bloom Pdf

What is "literature in these postmodern, postcanonical times? And if a small number of works being written today are "literary," what distinguishes them from those many others that are not? The store managers who shelve books in separate "literature" and "fiction" sections clearly have something in mind, but they're not talking. James Bloom has his own ideas, and he is. With zest and conviction, Bloom argues that traditional aspirations to literariness persist in the poetry and fiction of writers such as Robert Stone, Jane Smiley, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and Robert Pinsky. All, in their various ways, exhibit a critical and playful awareness of their literary antecedents, display and resist the seductions of eloquence, arouse and discipline their readers' curiosity. Bloom deftly shows how their writings negotiate with the nonliterary media that dominate our culture, even as the cultural capital of canonical authors like Shakespeare and Keats is put to work on the pages of mail-order catalogs and the New York Times, on network television, and in the products of the Disney conglomerate.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012983706

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The Banquet (Il Convito) of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Lord Henry Home Kames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Civilization
ISBN : NYPL:33433082426531

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Sketches of the History of Man by Lord Henry Home Kames Pdf

Author : Wincenty Lutosławski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Logic, Ancient
ISBN : PSU:000000453974

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The Origin and Growth of Plato's Logic by Wincenty Lutosławski Pdf

Author : J. K. Barret
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501705878

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Untold Futures by J. K. Barret Pdf

In Untold Futures, J. K. Barret locates models for recovering the variety of futures imagined within some of our most foundational literature. These poems, plays, and prose fictions reveal how Renaissance writers embraced uncertain potential to think about their own present moment and their own place in time. The history of the future that Barret reconstructs looks beyond futures implicitly dismissed as impossible or aftertimes defined by inevitability and fixed perspective. Chapters on Philip Sidney’s Old Arcadia, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Antony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost trace instead a persistent interest in an indeterminate, earthly future evident in literary constructions that foreground anticipation and expectation. Barret argues that the temporal perspectives embedded in these literary texts unsettle some of our most familiar points of reference for the period by highlighting an emerging cultural self-consciousness capable of registering earthly futures predicated on the continued sameness of time rather than radical ruptures in it. Rather than mapping a particular future, these writers generate imaginative access to a range of futures. Barret makes a strong case for the role of language itself in emerging conceptualizations of temporality.

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191655074

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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 by Andrew Hadfield Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of scientific writing and travel writing; from diaries, tracts on witchcraft, and domestic conduct books to rhetorical treatises designed for a courtly audience; from little known works such as William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, probably the first novel in English, to The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer and Richard Hooker's eloquent statement of Anglican belief, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The work not only deals with the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, but also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period, ranging from the Euphuistic nature of prose fiction inaugurated by John Lyly's mannered novel, to the aggressive polemic of the Marprelate controversy; from the scatological humour of comic writing to the careful modulations of the most significant sermons of the age; and from the pithy and concise English essays of Francis Bacon to the ornate and meandering style of John Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous collection. Each essay provides an overview as well as comment on key passages, and a select guide to further reading.