LEADER 04553nam 2200781 450 001 9910788908503321 005 20211013220735.0 010 $a0-8122-0880-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208801 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072431 035 $a(OCoLC)866922464 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10809846 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001060439 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11665904 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060439 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11105590 035 $a(PQKB)10870318 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27276 035 $a(DE-B1597)449776 035 $a(OCoLC)979968297 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208801 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442304 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10809846 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682601 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442304 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072431 100 $a20130514h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUncommon tongues $eeloquence and eccentricity in the English Renaissance /$fCatherine Nicholson 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51319-8 311 0 $a0-8122-4558-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Antisocial Orpheus --$tChapter 1. Good Space and Time: Humanist Pedagogy and the Uses of Estrangement --$tChapter 2. The Commonplace and the Far-Fetched: Mapping Eloquence in the English Art of Rhetoric --$tChapter 3. ?A World to See?: Euphues?s Wayward Style --$tChapter 4. Pastoral in Exile: Colin Clout and the Poetics of English Alienation --$tChapter 5. ?Conquering Feet?: Tamburlaine and the Measure of English --$tCoda. Eccentric Shakespeare --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEloquence in literature 606 $aEnglish language$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xStyle 606 $aEnglish language$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xRhetoric 606 $aNational characteristics, English, in literature 606 $aRhetoric, Renaissance$zEngland 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEloquence in literature. 615 0$aEnglish language$xStyle. 615 0$aEnglish language$xRhetoric. 615 0$aNational characteristics, English, in literature. 615 0$aRhetoric, Renaissance 676 $a820.9/003 686 $aHI 1125$2rvk 700 $aNicholson$b Catherine$f1978-$01523919 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788908503321 996 $aUncommon tongues$93764289 997 $aUNINA