04553nam 2200781 450 991078890850332120211013220735.00-8122-0880-310.9783/9780812208801(CKB)3710000000072431(OCoLC)866922464(CaPaEBR)ebrary10809846(SSID)ssj0001060439(PQKBManifestationID)11665904(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060439(PQKBWorkID)11105590(PQKB)10870318(MdBmJHUP)muse27276(DE-B1597)449776(OCoLC)979968297(DE-B1597)9780812208801(Au-PeEL)EBL3442304(CaPaEBR)ebr10809846(CaONFJC)MIL682601(MiAaPQ)EBC3442304(EXLCZ)99371000000007243120130514h20142014 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrUncommon tongues eloquence and eccentricity in the English Renaissance /Catherine NicholsonFirst edition.Philadelphia :University of Pennsylvania Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (225 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51319-8 0-8122-4558-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction. Antisocial Orpheus --Chapter 1. Good Space and Time: Humanist Pedagogy and the Uses of Estrangement --Chapter 2. The Commonplace and the Far-Fetched: Mapping Eloquence in the English Art of Rhetoric --Chapter 3. “A World to See”: Euphues’s Wayward Style --Chapter 4. Pastoral in Exile: Colin Clout and the Poetics of English Alienation --Chapter 5. “Conquering Feet”: Tamburlaine and the Measure of English --Coda. Eccentric Shakespeare --Notes --Index --AcknowledgmentsIn the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe loudly announced their ambitions for the mother tongue—but the extremity of their stylistic innovations yielded texts that seemed hardly English at all. Critics likened Lyly's hyperembellished prose to a bejeweled "Indian," complained that Spenser had "writ no language," and mocked Marlowe's blank verse as a "Turkish" concoction of "big-sounding sentences" and "termes Italianate." In its most sophisticated literary guises, the much-vaunted common tongue suddenly appeared quite foreign. In Uncommon Tongues, Catherine Nicholson locates strangeness at the paradoxical heart of sixteenth-century vernacular culture. Torn between two rival conceptions of eloquence, savvy writers and teachers labored to reconcile their country's need for a consistent, accessible mother tongue with the expectation that poetic language depart from everyday speech. That struggle, waged by pedagogical theorists and rhetoricians as well as authors we now recognize as some of the most accomplished and significant in English literary history, produced works that made the vernacular's oddities, constraints, and defects synonymous with its virtues. Such willful eccentricity, Nicholson argues, came to be seen as both the essence and antithesis of English eloquence.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismEloquence in literatureEnglish languageEarly modern, 1500-1700StyleEnglish languageEarly modern, 1500-1700RhetoricNational characteristics, English, in literatureRhetoric, RenaissanceEnglandCultural Studies.Literature.Medieval and Renaissance Studies.English literatureHistory and criticism.Eloquence in literature.English languageStyle.English languageRhetoric.National characteristics, English, in literature.Rhetoric, Renaissance820.9/003HI 1125rvkNicholson Catherine1978-1523919MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788908503321Uncommon tongues3764289UNINA