Rhetoric and courtliness in early modern literature. [elektronicky zdroj]
| Autor: | Richards, Jennifer, author |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Informace o vydání: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003. |
| Předmět: |
English literature -- Early modern
1500-1700 -- History and criticism Courts and courtiers in literature English language -- Early modern 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric Conversation -- History -- 16th century Conversation -- History -- 17th century Conversation in literature Courtesy in literature Humanists -- England |
| Druh dokumentu: | Online; Non-fiction; Electronic document |
| Abstrakt: | Summary: Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature explores the early modern interest in conversation as a newly identified art. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' - Jennifer Richards uncovers alternative ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. She argues that humanists explored styles of conversation to reform the manner of association between male associates; teachers and students, buyers and sellers, and settlers and colonial others. They reconsidered the meaning of 'honesty' in social interchange in an attempt to represent the tension between self-interest and social duty. Richards explores the interest in civil conversation among mid-Tudor humanists, John Cheke, Thomas Smith and Roger Ascham, as well as their self-styled successors, Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser. |
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