Rhetorics of Order/ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical LiteratureJohn Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter University of Delaware Press, 1989 - 200 pages This collection of essays on the rhetorics of order in English neoclassical literature includes Rose A. Zimbardo's investigation of generic slippage between drama and novel in works by Dryden and Behn; Maynard Mack's analysis of Pope's enduring rhetorics of presentation; and Patricia Meyer Spacks's examination of the heroines of Clarissa and the Italian. |
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... consider how our first conception of Almeyda is formed . In an earlier heroic drama Almeyda would figure an Idea of heroic beauty , virtue , or greatness of spirit . One aspect of the Idea might be more prominent than another at one or ...
... consider how our first conception of Almeyda is formed . In an earlier heroic drama Almeyda would figure an Idea of heroic beauty , virtue , or greatness of spirit . One aspect of the Idea might be more prominent than another at one or ...
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... consider , judge , stay , come , go , awake — especially awake , since to be in Pope's sense " awake " is our best protection from the Great Surrender against which poets have been warning us since Homer imagined Circe's palace ...
... consider , judge , stay , come , go , awake — especially awake , since to be in Pope's sense " awake " is our best protection from the Great Surrender against which poets have been warning us since Homer imagined Circe's palace ...
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... consider the " oddity ” question as a cultural issue , to try to see why Sterne's rhetorical disorder seemed so strange to Johnson and his contemporaries , to ask what the oddity ultimately has had to do with the lasting qualities of ...
... consider the " oddity ” question as a cultural issue , to try to see why Sterne's rhetorical disorder seemed so strange to Johnson and his contemporaries , to ask what the oddity ultimately has had to do with the lasting qualities of ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Poetical Injustice in Some Neglected Masterpieces | 23 |
The Late SeventeenthCentury Dilemma | 46 |
Copyright | |
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