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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... Sequence , and Proof : The Problematics of Analogy 17 2 Redcrosse as Courtier ; Narrative as Argument 34 PART TWO IURIS COMITATUS 3 Britomart Ascendent and Venus Transcendent 53 4 Proof by Digressio : A Rhetoric of Marriage 73 PART ...
... Sequence , and Proof : The Problematics of Analogy 17 2 Redcrosse as Courtier ; Narrative as Argument 34 PART TWO IURIS COMITATUS 3 Britomart Ascendent and Venus Transcendent 53 4 Proof by Digressio : A Rhetoric of Marriage 73 PART ...
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... sequence of events invites multiple interpretations by alluding to other sequences . Once a poet opts to use allegoria , he is committed by the demands of decorum to the conventions ( topoi ) of the genre . These include primarily ...
... sequence of events invites multiple interpretations by alluding to other sequences . Once a poet opts to use allegoria , he is committed by the demands of decorum to the conventions ( topoi ) of the genre . These include primarily ...
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... sequence and a vehicle for inter- woven progressions of erotic , social , and transcendent courtship that allow Spenser to exploit the rhetorical potential in their analogous configurations . His dispositio , however , conforms only ...
... sequence and a vehicle for inter- woven progressions of erotic , social , and transcendent courtship that allow Spenser to exploit the rhetorical potential in their analogous configurations . His dispositio , however , conforms only ...
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... sequence relative to other virtues and to some principle of order which , perforce , transcends any single component in the sequence . My choice of " justice " to label that supervalent motive25 derives entirely from what was intended ...
... sequence relative to other virtues and to some principle of order which , perforce , transcends any single component in the sequence . My choice of " justice " to label that supervalent motive25 derives entirely from what was intended ...
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... sequence of execution , because in rhetor- ical proof , for reasons I will outline shortly , sequence has conse- quence . My procedure equally implies no argument against privileging authorial intention . If we have some way of knowing ...
... sequence of execution , because in rhetor- ical proof , for reasons I will outline shortly , sequence has conse- quence . My procedure equally implies no argument against privileging authorial intention . If we have some way of knowing ...
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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