A Ciceronian sunburn
Subtitle: a Tudor dialogue on humanistic rhetoric and civic poetics
By: E. Armstrong.
Series: Studies in rhetoric/communication
Publisher: University of South Carolina
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Appreciation -- England.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586 -- Technique.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Technique.; Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Influence.; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Humanists -- England.; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.; English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric.; English poetry -- Roman influences.; Social ethics in literature.
Description: "A Ciceronian Sunburn reconsiders the completion of Tudor poetics by demonstrating the ways in which poets and pedagogues appropriated the rhetorical brilliance of Cicero to inform their approaches to learning. By recasting the poetic texts of Edmund Spenser and Sir Philip Sidney as works that participated in sixteenth-century debates on learning, E. Armstrong challenges conventional views of Tudor politics. He argues that the poetry of Spenser, Sidney and others of the period reflects a more fully developed understanding of Ciceronian rhetoric than is found in the lectures, pedagogical handbooks, and treatises of early modern scholars, the sources to which historians of humanistic rhetoric must frequently turn."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Making morality : Lodowick Bryskett's Discourse of civill life; title: Glossing Spenser's humanistic poetics (rhetorically); title: Negotiating metaphors : on The shepheardes calender; title: Whole/someness : on this book as a whole; title: Making matter for a conceit, making conceit matter; title: Telling tales out of school : on Spenser's view; title: Inventing civic selves in Spenser's "Legend of courtesie" : an ethics of fashioning lies.