The Performance of Conviction : : Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance / / Kenneth J. E. Graham.
Belief or skepticism, obedience or resistance to authority, theatricality or stoic self-possession—Kenneth J. E. Graham explores these alternatives in the culture of early modern England. Focusing on plainness—a stylistic feature of much Renaissance writing-he surveys texts including Wyatt's an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rhetoric and Society
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction. Captive to Truth: Rethinking Renaissance Plainness
- 1. Wyatt's Antirhetorical Verse: Privilege and the Performance of Conviction
- 2. Educational Authority and the Plain Truth in the Admonition Controversy and The Scholemaster
- 3. Peace, Order, and Confusion: Fulke Greville and the Inner and Outer Forms of Reform
- 4. The Mysterious Plainness of Anger: The Search for Justice in Satire and Revenge Tragedy
- 5. The Performance of Pride: Desire, Truth, and Power in Coholanus and Timon of Athens
- 6. "Without the form of justice": Plainness and the Performance of Love in King Lear
- Epilogue: A Precious Jewel?
- Index