The Polliticke Courtier: Spenser's the Faerie Queene As a Rhetoric of Justice - Couverture rigide

Dixon, Michael F.N.

 
9780773514256: The Polliticke Courtier: Spenser's the Faerie Queene As a Rhetoric of Justice
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0773514252 ISBN 13 : 9780773514256
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Although pervasive in Spenser's art, the role of rhetoric has not been adequately addressed by critics. This disregard of the importance of rhetoric in The Faerie Queene, Dixon argues, obscures Spenser's larger rhetorical method and the structural dynamic it generates. Dixon identifies Britomart's evolution in Books III-V as the poem's centre and elucidates the rhetorical strategies that invest Spenser's "argument" for justice. Building on Kenneth Burke's conception of courtship in rhetoric as "the use of suasive devices for the transcending of social estrangement," Dixon interprets The Faerie Queene as a narrative of courtship in purpose as well as content, arguing that its tales of questing knights compose an artifact of suasive devices whereby Spenser courts a meeting of minds with his audience on the subject of justice.

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Éditeur
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0773514252
ISBN 13 
9780773514256
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
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