Polliticke Courtier: Spenser's The Faerie Queene as a Rhetoric of JusticeAlthough pervasive in Spenser's art, the role of rhetoric has not been adequately addressed by critics. This disregard of the importance of rhetoric in The Faerie Queene, Dixon argues, obscures Spenser's larger rhetorical method and the structural dynamic it generates. Dixon identifies Britomart's evolution in Books III-V as the poem's centre and elucidates the rhetorical strategies that invest Spenser's "argument" for justice. Building on Kenneth Burke's conception of courtship in rhetoric as "the use of suasive devices for the transcending of social estrangement," Dixon interprets The Faerie Queene as a narrative of courtship in purpose as well as content, arguing that its tales of questing knights compose an artifact of suasive devices whereby Spenser courts a meeting of minds with his audience on the subject of justice. |
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... Argument 34 PART TWO IURIS COMITATUS 3 Britomart Ascendent and Venus Transcendent 53 4 Proof by Digressio : A Rhetoric of Marriage 73 PART THREE CIVILITATIS CAUSA 5 Ovid's Cone and the Rhetoric of Law 93 6 Radigund , Britomart , and the ...
... Argument 34 PART TWO IURIS COMITATUS 3 Britomart Ascendent and Venus Transcendent 53 4 Proof by Digressio : A Rhetoric of Marriage 73 PART THREE CIVILITATIS CAUSA 5 Ovid's Cone and the Rhetoric of Law 93 6 Radigund , Britomart , and the ...
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Contents
The Problematics | 17 |
Redcrosse as Courtier Narrative as Argument | 34 |
Britomart Ascendent and Venus Transcendent | 53 |
A Rhetoric of Marriage | 73 |
Ovids Cone and the Rhetoric of Law | 93 |
Radigund Britomart and the Rhetoric | 114 |
The Ethos | 135 |
Mount Acidale Arlo Hill and the Ethos of Pastoral | 161 |
Spenser on Arlo Hill | 184 |
Schematic of Classical Rhetoric and Glossary | 205 |
Bibliography | 233 |
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Polliticke Courtier: Spenser's The Faerie Queene as a Rhetoric of Justice Michael F.N. Dixon No preview available - 1996 |
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