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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... CAUSA 5 Ovid's Cone and the Rhetoric of Law 93 6 Radigund , Britomart , and the Rhetoric of Psychomachia 114 7 Artegall , Mercilla , and Calidore : The Ethos of Fortune 135 PART FOUR " ( WHO KNOWES NOT ARLO - HILL Contents.
... CAUSA 5 Ovid's Cone and the Rhetoric of Law 93 6 Radigund , Britomart , and the Rhetoric of Psychomachia 114 7 Artegall , Mercilla , and Calidore : The Ethos of Fortune 135 PART FOUR " ( WHO KNOWES NOT ARLO - HILL Contents.
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... " priuate morall virtues " ; Arthur's erotic quest for Gloriana is far less significant to the actual dispositio of The Faerie Queene than Britomart's for Artegall ; and the intended sequestering 12 The Polliticke Courtier.
... " priuate morall virtues " ; Arthur's erotic quest for Gloriana is far less significant to the actual dispositio of The Faerie Queene than Britomart's for Artegall ; and the intended sequestering 12 The Polliticke Courtier.
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... Artegall ; and the intended sequestering of " priuate morall " from public or " polliticke " virtues does not sur- vive Book III , and could hardly do so decorously given the political resonance of its subject - " chastitie " - in ...
... Artegall ; and the intended sequestering of " priuate morall " from public or " polliticke " virtues does not sur- vive Book III , and could hardly do so decorously given the political resonance of its subject - " chastitie " - in ...
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Contents
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15 | |
IURIS COMITATUS | 51 |
CIVILITATIS CAUSA | 91 |
WHO KNOWES NOT ARLOHILL? A GRAMMAR OF CLOSURE | 159 |
Schematic of Classical Rhetoric and Glossary of Terms | 205 |
Notes | 211 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 241 |
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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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