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Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England

Michael Ullyot
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      In this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a recursive cycle driven by rhetoricians' words and readers' actions; and second, that positive moral examples are not replicable, but rather aspirational models of readers' posthumous biographies. For example, Alexander the Great envied Achilles less for his exemplary life than for Homer's account of it. Ullyotdefines the three types of decorum on which exemplary rhetoric and imitation rely, and charts their operations through Philip Sidney's poetics, Edmund Spenser's poetry, and the dedications, sermons, elegies, biographies, and other occasional texts about Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, andHenry, Prince of Wales. Ullyot expands the definition of occasional texts to include those that criticize their circumstances to demand better ones, and historicizes moral exemplarity in the contexts of sixteenth-century Protestant memory and humanist pedagogy. The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England concludes that all exemplary subjects suffer from the problem of metonymy, the objection that their chosen excerpts misrepresent their missing parts. This problem alsobesets historicist literary criticism, ever subject to corrections from the archive, so this study concedes that its own rhetorical methods are exemplary.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Ullyot EAN: 9780192849335 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 536 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-03-03 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

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      England, English, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, European history

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      Michael Ullyot is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary. His research includes articles, chapters on late Elizabethan and early Stuart culture, as well as edited primary texts. He has published (with Rebecca W. Bushnell) on Shakespeare and virtual reality; (with Adam J. Bradley) on algorithms for detecting rhetorical figures; on a quantitative model of the English-language sonnet; and on archives and artificialintelligence.
      In this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a recursive cycle driven by rhetoricians' words and readers' actions; and second, that positive moral examples are not replicable, but rather aspirational models of readers' posthumous biographies. For example, Alexander the Great envied Achilles less for his exemplary life than for Homer's account of it. Ullyotdefines the three types of decorum on which exemplary rhetoric and imitation rely, and charts their operations through Philip Sidney's poetics, Edmund Spenser's poetry, and the dedications, sermons, elegies, biographies, and other occasional texts about Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, andHenry, Prince of Wales. Ullyot expands the definition of occasional texts to include those that criticize their circumstances to demand better ones, and historicizes moral exemplarity in the contexts of sixteenth-century Protestant memory and humanist pedagogy. The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England concludes that all exemplary subjects suffer from the problem of metonymy, the objection that their chosen excerpts misrepresent their missing parts. This problem alsobesets historicist literary criticism, ever subject to corrections from the archive, so this study concedes that its own rhetorical methods are exemplary.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Ullyot EAN: 9780192849335 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 536 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-03-03 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

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      England, English, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, European history

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      Michael Ullyot is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary. His research includes articles, chapters on late Elizabethan and early Stuart culture, as well as edited primary texts. He has published (with Rebecca W. Bushnell) on Shakespeare and virtual reality; (with Adam J. Bradley) on algorithms for detecting rhetorical figures; on a quantitative model of the English-language sonnet; and on archives and artificialintelligence.

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