Rhetorical affect in early modern writing : renaissance passions reconsidered
This book challenges the way in which current critical orthodoxy tend to invite the emotional assent of readers more on the basis of admirable principles, than on conclusive textual evidence. The affective use of language by critics such as Greenblatt, Jardine, Eagleton and Greer, in furtherance of their argument, recalls the Aristotelian concepts of ethos and pathos, and conveys the stance of the writer by stimulating the reader's emotion. Affectivity is as much a feature of writing about Renaissance texts today, as it was of the texts themselves. To what extent do contemporary critical agendas distort of overlook the complexity of emotion in works by writers such as Marlowe, Milton and Lucy Hutchinson? This book aims to provide new reading strategies, applying schema theory, deixis and other linguistic models, both to original texts and to modern criticism, whilst drawing on the Renaissance's own complex and problematic understanding of pathos
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (209 pages)
9780230005945, 9780333802526, 0230005942, 0333802527
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Preface
PART I: INTRODUCTION: RECONSIDERED PASSIONS
From Perception to Persuasion
Why 'Reconsidered Passion'?
Emotion, now- and then
Introducing the New Rhetoric
Empowering the Reader?
A 'Double Analysis'
with a difference
PART II: SABLE CLOUDS AND SILVER LININGS
A Pathetic Muddle?
Ideas of Pathos from Plato to Milton
The Applications of Pathos
Milton's A Masque: the Progression of Pathos
PART III; OLD PASSIONS, NEW PURPOSES; RHETORIC RHETORICISED
Reconsidering: how and why?
Baldwin and Marlowe: Talent and the Spotlight
Hutchinson and Cavendish: Writer and Audience
Shakespeare: About the Bard's Business
Milton: Perspectives on Power
PART IV; GOING TO EXTREMES
The Extremes of Love and Hate
Passionate to a Purpose
PART V: ADJUSTING THE MIRRORS
The Emotional Laser
Marlowe and Baldwin: Designs on the Audience
Hutchinson and Cavendish: Rival Reflections
Shakespeare: Back to the Audience?
Paradise Lost: Engaging the Reader
A Case in Point: Wyatt and Gascoigne
Conclusion
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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