Rhetorics of Order/ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical LiteratureJohn Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter University of Delaware Press, 1989 - 200 páginas This collection of essays on the rhetorics of order in English neoclassical literature includes Rose A. Zimbardo's investigation of generic slippage between drama and novel in works by Dryden and Behn; Maynard Mack's analysis of Pope's enduring rhetorics of presentation; and Patricia Meyer Spacks's examination of the heroines of Clarissa and the Italian. |
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John Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter. Rhetorics of Order / Ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical Literature Edited by J. Douglas Canfield and J. Paul Hunter ( Continued from front flap ) ened heroines in Clarissa. Front Cover.
John Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter. Rhetorics of Order / Ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical Literature Edited by J. Douglas Canfield and J. Paul Hunter ( Continued from front flap ) ened heroines in Clarissa. Front Cover.
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... Clarissa and The Italian to order their own stories . About the Editors J. DOUGLAS CANFIELD is Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Ari- zona . He ...
... Clarissa and The Italian to order their own stories . About the Editors J. DOUGLAS CANFIELD is Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Ari- zona . He ...
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... Clarissa and The Italian PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS 158 Clocks , Calendars , and Names : The Troubles of Tristram and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty J. PAUL HUNTER 173 Notes on Contributors 199 Preface JOHN IRWIN FISCHER and CLIFFORD EARL ...
... Clarissa and The Italian PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS 158 Clocks , Calendars , and Names : The Troubles of Tristram and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty J. PAUL HUNTER 173 Notes on Contributors 199 Preface JOHN IRWIN FISCHER and CLIFFORD EARL ...
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... Clarissa and The Italian to order their own stories . Clarissa finally literalizes the Christian story of " humiliation , sacrifice , and transcendence " and employs it as an assertion of power and self — although the only self ...
... Clarissa and The Italian to order their own stories . Clarissa finally literalizes the Christian story of " humiliation , sacrifice , and transcendence " and employs it as an assertion of power and self — although the only self ...
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Drama | 21 |
Poetical Injustice in Some Neglected Masterpieces of Restoration Drama | 23 |
Drydens Don Sebastian and Behns Oroonoko | 46 |
A Yet Farther Defence of the Stage | 68 |
Poetry | 83 |
Salute to a ThreeHundredth Birthday | 98 |
Popes Unfortunate Lady and Elegiac Form | 120 |
Prose | 135 |
Locke Addison Prior and the Order of Things | 137 |
Clarissa and The Italian | 158 |
The Troubles of Tristram and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty | 173 |
Notes on Contributors | 197 |
The Rhetoric of Kairos in Drydens Absalom and Achitophel | 85 |
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Rhetorics of Order/ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical Literature John Douglas Canfield,J. Paul Hunter Vista de fragmentos - 1989 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison Alcmena Alexander Pope allusion Almeyda Amphitryon anxiety argued Behn Behn's characters Christian City Ramble Clarissa clock comic Councilman death discourse Don Sebastian Dorax drama Dryden earlier eighteenth-century Ellena Eloisa to Abelard English epic Essay father fiction figure genres heroic drama high heroic ideas identity John John Dryden Jupiter Kairos king king's knowledge language Laurence Sterne Lerma literary Literature Locke Locke's London Lovelace low realistic ment Mercury metaphor mind narrative Nemours neoclassical novel novelistic ordering rhetorics Oroonoko Oxford pastoral PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS PAUL HUNTER Phaedra play plot poem poet poetic poetry Pope Pope's Elegy providential justice question rape readers reform Rhetorics of Order satire scene seems sense Settle Settle's sexual speech Sterne Sterne's story style suggests things tion traditional Tristram Shandy truth uncle Toby Unfortunate Lady University Press Walter wife wit and judgment women words wou'd Yorick
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Página 87 - Curl'd or uncurl'd, since Locks will turn to grey ; Since painted, or not painted, all shall fade, And she who scorns a Man, must die a Maid, What then remains but well our Pow'r to use, And keep...
Página 72 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 94 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 86 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Página 123 - ... harangues and popular addresses, they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided and, where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault either of the language or person that makes use of them.
Página 22 - But not for a Lip, nor a languishing Eye: She's fickle and false, and there we agree; For I am as false, and as fickle as she: We neither believe what either can say; And, neither believing, we neither betray. Tis civil to swear, and say things of course; We mean not the taking for better for worse. When present, we love; when absent, agree: I think not of Iris, nor Iris of me: The Legend of Love no Couple can find So easie to part, or so equally join'd.
Página 152 - Here, gazing upon the stupendous imagery around her, looking, as it were, beyond the awful veil which obscures the features of the Deity, and conceals Him from the eyes of his creatures; dwelling as with a present God in the midst of his sublime works; with a mind thus elevated, how insignificant would appear to her the transactions, and the sufferings of this world!
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