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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Page 138
... reason , but not the reason of his predecessors . The encounter is a reminder again of how often neo- classical wit plays upon mortality and how often it laughs at the oppositional logic of either / or . The common language Gay counted ...
... reason , but not the reason of his predecessors . The encounter is a reminder again of how often neo- classical wit plays upon mortality and how often it laughs at the oppositional logic of either / or . The common language Gay counted ...
Page 149
... reason . " ) and looking for the moment as if it might offer an exhaustive characterological dichotomy ( a recurrent fantasy neatly satirized in the quip , “ There are two kinds of people : those who divide things into two and those who ...
... reason . " ) and looking for the moment as if it might offer an exhaustive characterological dichotomy ( a recurrent fantasy neatly satirized in the quip , “ There are two kinds of people : those who divide things into two and those who ...
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... reasons , I think , one textual and contextual , the other personal and philosophical . The first makes a firm point about ... reason . The portrayal of Tristram as writer , histo- rian , and would - be novelist seems central to Tristram ...
... reasons , I think , one textual and contextual , the other personal and philosophical . The first makes a firm point about ... reason . The portrayal of Tristram as writer , histo- rian , and would - be novelist seems central to Tristram ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Poetical Injustice in Some Neglected Masterpieces | 23 |
The Late SeventeenthCentury Dilemma | 46 |
Copyright | |
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