The Performance of Conviction : Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance /

Belief or skepticism, obedience or resistance to authority, theatricality or stoic self-possession-Kenneth J. E. Graham explores these alternatives in the culture of early modern England. Focusing on plainness-a stylistic feature of much Renaissance writing-he surveys texts including Wyatt's an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Graham, Kenneth J. E. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Rebhorn, Wayne A. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Colección:Rhetoric and Society
Temas:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction. Captive to Truth: Rethinking Renaissance Plainness
  • 1. Wyatt's Antirhetorical Verse: Privilege and the Performance of Conviction
  • 2. Educational Authority and the Plain Truth in the Admonition Controversy and The Scholemaster
  • 3. Peace, Order, and Confusion: Fulke Greville and the Inner and Outer Forms of Reform
  • 4. The Mysterious Plainness of Anger: The Search for Justice in Satire and Revenge Tragedy
  • 5. The Performance of Pride: Desire, Truth, and Power in Coholanus and Timon of Athens
  • 6. "Without the form of justice": Plainness and the Performance of Love in King Lear
  • Epilogue: A Precious Jewel?
  • Index

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