Details

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature


Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature



von: Anne Cotterill

82,50 €

Verlag: OUP Oxford
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 19.02.2004
ISBN/EAN: 9780191532061
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 352

DRM-geschütztes eBook, Sie benötigen z.B. Adobe Digital Editions und eine Adobe ID zum Lesen.

Beschreibungen

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with deviation or departure from a course, subject, or standard. This book demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richlylabyrinthine voices that captured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal loss. Anne Cotterill turns current sensitivity toward the silenced voice to argue that rhetorical amplitude might suggest anxieties about speech and attack for men forced tobe competitive yet circumspect as they made their voices heard.

Diese Produkte könnten Sie auch interessieren: