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

• Autore: Sloane Thomas O
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1985
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 332 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 821/.009/384
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Donne, Milton, and the end of humanist rhetoric
• ISBN: 0-520-05212-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247993903316
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