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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... epic narrative in the conception of justice . He demonstrates how Spenser adapts classical rhetoric to the poetics of romance - epic and illustrates the usefulness of rhe- torical analysis as a complement to allegorical studies and the ...
... epic narrative in the conception of justice . He demonstrates how Spenser adapts classical rhetoric to the poetics of romance - epic and illustrates the usefulness of rhe- torical analysis as a complement to allegorical studies and the ...
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... epic is neither self- evident nor established by recent custom , and I am indebted to more students and colleagues in English and other disciplines at the Uni- versity of Toronto than I can acknowledge individually . Their good will ...
... epic is neither self- evident nor established by recent custom , and I am indebted to more students and colleagues in English and other disciplines at the Uni- versity of Toronto than I can acknowledge individually . Their good will ...
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... epic in Dame Nature's juridical decision at the court on Arlo Hill concerning Mutabilitie's " appeale " against Jove's denial of her case for universal sovereignty ( VII.vii.58 ) . By merging topoi of allegoria with those of other ...
... epic in Dame Nature's juridical decision at the court on Arlo Hill concerning Mutabilitie's " appeale " against Jove's denial of her case for universal sovereignty ( VII.vii.58 ) . By merging topoi of allegoria with those of other ...
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... epic poetry ; indeed , the inherent principle of decorum itself precludes any protocol of application to any rhetorical artifact that is not contingent on the artifact . Analysts , like the poets they analyse , must adapt rhetorical ...
... epic poetry ; indeed , the inherent principle of decorum itself precludes any protocol of application to any rhetorical artifact that is not contingent on the artifact . Analysts , like the poets they analyse , must adapt rhetorical ...
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... Epic is not discursive dialogue : their generic topoi and principles of decorum differ significantly , and Spenser's inventio announced in the letter to Raleigh is multivalent , a complex of abstractions : I labour to pourtraict in ...
... Epic is not discursive dialogue : their generic topoi and principles of decorum differ significantly , and Spenser's inventio announced in the letter to Raleigh is multivalent , a complex of abstractions : I labour to pourtraict in ...
Contents
3 | |
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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Acrasia allegoria allusive Amoret analogy apex Aptekar Archimago argues argument Arlo Hill Artegall Artegall's Arthur asserts attributes audience becomes Belphoebe Book Britomart Busirane Busirane's Calidore Calidore's Cantos chaste chastity Colin's common concord court courtesy courtier courtship Dame Nature decorous decorum demonstrates Despaire Despaire's digressio dispositio Dolon's Duessa dynamic dyslogistic Elizabeth elocutio enthymeme epic episode erotic estrangement ethical ethos eulogistic evoke exempla exemplum Faerie Queene fairy tale Florimell friendship function Gloriana grace Grantorto Guyon Hamilton hierarchical ideal identifies identity indecorum inventio of justice Isis Isis's knight locus logical logos loue Lucifera's Malecasta's Mammon Marinell marriage Mercilla metonymic moral motives Mount Acidale Mutabilitie narrative sequence narrator Ovid's cone Ovidian pathos Poem's Two Bodies poet polliticke posture praise Proem proof prosopographia psychomachia quest Radigund reciprocal Redcrosse refutatio rhetorical rhetorical structure Scudamour sequential social Spenser's dispositio Spenser's inventio strategies suasive synecdochal Talus tion topoi topos topothesia transcendent trope ultimate term Venus virtues vision