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Record Nr.

UNISA996247993903316

Autore

Sloane Thomas O

Titolo

Donne, Milton, and the end of humanist rhetoric / / Thomas O. Sloane [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1985

ISBN

0-520-05212-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 332 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

821/.009/384

Soggetti

English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Humanism in literature

Rhetoric - 1500-1800

English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Rhetoric

English poetry - History and criticism - Early modern, 1500-1700

Humanism in literature - Rhetoric - Early modern, 1500-1700

English language

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 291-323.

Nota di contenuto

I. In our end is our beginning, and vice versa -- Two speeches -- Two poems -- Janus academicus -- II. Rhetoric in controversy, and vice versa -- Erasmus -- Humanism -- Augustine -- Cicero -- A history of English humanist rhetorical theory -- III. Donne's rhetoric -- Inconstancy begets a constant habit -- John Donne's Augustinian formalism: a trial -- Rhethoric as a habit of thought and movement of mind -- Miltonic form -- The disintegration of humanist rhetoric -- Milton's rhetoric: a prolusion -- Thinking mythologically: "Some stronger impulse" -- Conclusion: controversia as inventio.