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A history of Renaissance rhetoric, 1380-1620
Describes the most important individual contributions to the development of Renaissance rhetoric and analyzes the new ideas which Renaissance thinkers contributed to rhetorical theory.
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Uncommon Tongues
In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe loudly announced their ambitions for the mother tongue-but the extremity of their stylistic innovations yielded texts that seemed hardly English at all. Critics likened Lyly's hyperembellished prose to a bejeweled \"Indian,\" complained that Spenser had \"writ no language,\" and mocked Marlowe's blank verse as a \"Turkish\" concoction of \"big-sounding sentences\" and \"termes Italianate.\" In its most sophisticated literary guises, the much-vaunted common tongue suddenly appeared quite foreign.InUncommon Tongues, Catherine Nicholson locates strangeness at the paradoxical heart of sixteenth-century vernacular culture. Torn between two rival conceptions of eloquence, savvy writers and teachers labored to reconcile their country's need for a consistent, accessible mother tongue with the expectation that poetic language depart from everyday speech. That struggle, waged by pedagogical theorists and rhetoricians as well as authors we now recognize as some of the most accomplished and significant in English literary history, produced works that made the vernacular's oddities, constraints, and defects synonymous with its virtues. Such willful eccentricity, Nicholson argues, came to be seen as both the essence and antithesis of English eloquence.
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Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture
Der Band bietet eine kulturhistorische Darstellung der europäischen Renaissance mit dem Schwerpunkt von Poetik und Literatur unter den Aspekten Imagination/Inventio, Gattungstheorie/Dispositio, Stil/Elocutio, Architektur/Memoria sowie Darstellung/Actio. Shakespeares Werke dienen der exemplarischen Veranschaulichung der beschriebenen rhetorischen Phänomene. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit ist der Rhetorik von Malerei und Musik sowie der rhetorischen Kulturideologie gewidmet.
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Outlaw Rhetoric
A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community. Thus, one of the main cultural projects of Renaissance rhetoricians was that of producing a \"common\" vernacular eloquence, mindful of its classical origins yet self-consciously English in character. The process of vernacularization began during Henry VIII's reign and continued, with fits and starts, late into the seventeenth century. However, as Jenny C. Mann shows inOutlaw Rhetoric, this project was beset with problems and conflicts from the start.
Outlaw Rhetoricexamines the substantial and largely unexplored archive of vernacular rhetorical guides produced in England between 1500 and 1700. Writers of these guides drew on classical training as they translated Greek and Latin figures of speech into an everyday English that could serve the ends of literary and national invention. In the process, however, they confronted aspects of rhetoric that run counter to its civilizing impulse. For instance, Mann finds repeated references to Robin Hood, indicating an ongoing concern that vernacular rhetoric is \"outlaw\" to the classical tradition because it is common, popular, and ephemeral. As this book shows, however, such allusions hint at a growing acceptance of the nonclassical along with a new esteem for literary production that can be identified as native to England. Working across a range of genres, Mann demonstrates the effects of this tension between classical rhetoric and English outlawry in works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson, and Cavendish. In so doing she reveals the political stakes of the vernacular rhetorical project in the age of Shakespeare.
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