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Polliticke Courtier : Spenser's the Faerie Queene As a Rhetoric of Justice.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773566118
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Polliticke CourtierLOC classification:
  • PR2358
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rhetorical Structure and Critical Re-construction -- PART ONE: INVENTIO HEROICAE -- 1 Decorum, Sequence, and Proof: The Problematics of Analogy -- 2 Redcrosse as Courtier -- Narrative as Argument -- PART TWO: IURIS COMITATUS -- 3 Britomart Ascendent and Venus Transcendent -- 4 Proof by Digressio: A Rhetoric of Marriage -- PART THREE: CIVILITATIS CAUSA -- 5 Ovid's Cone and the Rhetoric of Law -- 6 Radigund, Britomart, and the Rhetoric of Psychomachia -- 7 Artegall, Mercilla, and Calidore: The Ethos of Fortune -- PART FOUR: "(WHO KNOWES NOT ARLO-HILL?)": A GRAMMAR OF CLOSURE -- 8 Mount Acidale, Arlo Hill, and the Ethos of Pastoral -- 9 Envoy and Peroratio: Spenser on Arlo Hill -- Appendix: Schematic of Classical Rhetoric and Glossary of Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: Michael Dixon applies rhetorical theory to The Faerie Queene, highlighting the importance of rhetoric and locating the inventio, or organizing principle, of Spenser's epic narrative in the conception of justice. He demonstrates how Spenser adapts classical rhetoric to the poetics of romance-epic and illustrates the usefulness of rhetorical analysis as a complement to allegorical studies and the New Critical and new historicist approaches that currently dichotomize Spenserian scholarship.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rhetorical Structure and Critical Re-construction -- PART ONE: INVENTIO HEROICAE -- 1 Decorum, Sequence, and Proof: The Problematics of Analogy -- 2 Redcrosse as Courtier -- Narrative as Argument -- PART TWO: IURIS COMITATUS -- 3 Britomart Ascendent and Venus Transcendent -- 4 Proof by Digressio: A Rhetoric of Marriage -- PART THREE: CIVILITATIS CAUSA -- 5 Ovid's Cone and the Rhetoric of Law -- 6 Radigund, Britomart, and the Rhetoric of Psychomachia -- 7 Artegall, Mercilla, and Calidore: The Ethos of Fortune -- PART FOUR: "(WHO KNOWES NOT ARLO-HILL?)": A GRAMMAR OF CLOSURE -- 8 Mount Acidale, Arlo Hill, and the Ethos of Pastoral -- 9 Envoy and Peroratio: Spenser on Arlo Hill -- Appendix: Schematic of Classical Rhetoric and Glossary of Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Michael Dixon applies rhetorical theory to The Faerie Queene, highlighting the importance of rhetoric and locating the inventio, or organizing principle, of Spenser's epic narrative in the conception of justice. He demonstrates how Spenser adapts classical rhetoric to the poetics of romance-epic and illustrates the usefulness of rhetorical analysis as a complement to allegorical studies and the New Critical and new historicist approaches that currently dichotomize Spenserian scholarship.

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