Interprets the stylistic feature of plainness in English Renaissance literature not only as a literary style but also as a mode of political and religious rhetoric. Argues that simple and direct assertions without substantiating arguments were claims to absolute truth that needed no explanation, and
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Interprets the stylistic feature of plainness in English Renaissance literature not only as a literary style but also as a mode of political and religious rhetoric. Argues that simple and direct assertions without substantiating arguments were claims to absolute truth that needed no explanation, and
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Very Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact. Internally, clean and fresh, with unmarked and uncreased pages. Overall, very sound and presentable. Publisher's note: 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 anti-courtly verse, the Puritan Admonition to Parliament, Ascham's Scholemaster, Greville's non-dramatic writings, and works of Shakespearean tragedy, revenge tragedy, and verse satire. Graham shows how plainness functions not only as a literary style, but also as a mode of political and religious rhetoric that reflects powerful historical currents. Plainness is a result of the claim to possess the plain truth-a self-evident, absolute truth. In the absence of rhetorical criteria for truth, however, plainness registers a conviction that is plain to those who share it but opaque to those who don't. The plain truth can denote either the truth proclaimed and enforced by a public authority, whether liberal or conservative, or the truth of private conviction, which may oppose public authority. According to Graham, the pervasiveness of plainness in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries is evidence of a failure of consensus, as authorities made conflicting, irresolvable claims to certainty. The rhetoric of plainness, he asserts, reveals a profound opposition between the attitude of persuasion, a moderately skeptical, pragmatic, and inclusive outlook characteristic of Erasmian humanism, and a stance of conviction, an absolutist, essentialist, and exclusive attitude more typical of Neostoicism and political and moral conservatism. Size: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm. xiv, 232 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Literature and society--England--History--16th century; Renaissance--England; Rhetoric--Social aspects--England--History; Rhetoric--1500-1800; Literature and society--England--History--16th century; Renaissance--England; ISBN: 0801428718. ISBN/EAN: 9780801428715. Add. Inventory No: 250221JPY0586420.
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