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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... elocutio ( style and ornamentation ) .2 This limited approach reflects the author- ity of venerable precedent . Renaissance theorists , themselves biased by tradition to stress the rhetoric of lawcourts , pulpits , and political ...
... elocutio ( style and ornamentation ) .2 This limited approach reflects the author- ity of venerable precedent . Renaissance theorists , themselves biased by tradition to stress the rhetoric of lawcourts , pulpits , and political ...
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... elocutio . Indeed , Aristotle himself refined the standard definition of rhetoric to stress that " the art of persua- sion " is primarily one of inventio – of discovery , selection , and orga- nization rather than ornamentation . He ...
... elocutio . Indeed , Aristotle himself refined the standard definition of rhetoric to stress that " the art of persua- sion " is primarily one of inventio – of discovery , selection , and orga- nization rather than ornamentation . He ...
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... elocutio functioning as a somewhat extended metaphora , but in Spenser's practice it has evolved into a genre and hence into an element of inventio.5 In this generic mode allegoria functions as both a method of exegesis for prophecies ...
... elocutio functioning as a somewhat extended metaphora , but in Spenser's practice it has evolved into a genre and hence into an element of inventio.5 In this generic mode allegoria functions as both a method of exegesis for prophecies ...
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... elocutio , my aim is to reintegrate rhetorical elements within their structure of decorum and elucidate its dynamics . 8 This is precisely the point where I suspect the " fewness " of Mur- phy's " few Spenserians " has its source . Such ...
... elocutio , my aim is to reintegrate rhetorical elements within their structure of decorum and elucidate its dynamics . 8 This is precisely the point where I suspect the " fewness " of Mur- phy's " few Spenserians " has its source . Such ...
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... Elocutio demonstrates inven- tio , and such mutual discomfort with critical idiom evokes Edward Pechter's definition of critical " jargon " as " the kind of language used by people who believe differently from us . " 17 Rhetorical terms ...
... Elocutio demonstrates inven- tio , and such mutual discomfort with critical idiom evokes Edward Pechter's definition of critical " jargon " as " the kind of language used by people who believe differently from us . " 17 Rhetorical terms ...
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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