Format:
1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
ISBN:
9780748644667
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0748644660
Series Statement:
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Content:
A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the London literary scene in the 1590s, is as much about rhetoric as about sex. So argues William Weaver in this fascinating study of Renaissance education and poetry. Rhetoric, moreover, is erotic. Far being merely formal, rhetoric is the key to deciphering the cultural meanings of an enigmatic genre. Weaver attends to one of the epyllion's defining dramas: boys in transition to adulthood. Whereas recent studies of the epyllion have posited sexuality a
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index
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COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Progymnasmata: Humanist Rites of Passage; Chapter 2 Fabula: Observing 'Amorous Rites' in Hero and Leander; Chapter 3 Chreia: Making Themes in Venus and Adonis; Chapter 4 Narratiuncula: Coming of Age in Oenone and Paris; Chapter 5 Narratio and Confirmatio: Forensic Performance in Lucrece; Chapter 6 Encomium: Antinous as Lord of Misrule in Orchestra; Chapter 7 Thesis: Controlling Speech in Cephalus and Procris; Epilogue Jesus' First Exercises in Paradise Regained; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Weaver, William P Untutored Lines : The Making of the English Epyllion Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 ISBN 9780748644650
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Author information:
Weaver, William P.
