Uncommon Tongues : Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
Cover -- Uncommon Tongues -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Antisocial Orpheus -- Chapter 1. Good Space and Time: Humanist Pedagogy and the Uses of Estrangement -- Chapter 2. The Commonplace and the Far-Fetched: Mapping Eloquence in the English Art of Rhetoric -- Chapter 3. "A World to See": Euphues's Wayward Style -- Chapter 4. Pastoral in Exile: Colin Clout and the Poetics of English Alienation -- Chapter 5. "Conquering Feet": Tamburlaine and the Measure of English -- Coda: Eccentric Shakespeare -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Uncommon Tongues explores the tension between the political value of eloquence and its classical definition in sixteenth-century English literature, locating eccentricity and unfamiliarity at the heart of pedagogical, rhetorical, and literary culture.
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Lyly, John,-1554?-1606.-Euphues. Spenser, Edmund,-1552?-1599.-Shepherd's calender. Marlowe, Christopher,-1564-1593.-Tamburlaine the Great. English literature-Early modern, 1500-1700-History and criticism. Eloquence in literature. English language-Early modern, 1500-1700-Style. English language-Early modern, 1500-1700-Rhetoric. National characteristics, English, in literature. Rhetoric, Renaissance-England.