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Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama
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9789004535299
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9789004535299
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Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama
$118.38
Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama proposes a fresh performance-centered view of rhetoric by recovering, tracing, and analyzing the trope and tradition of aestheticized argumentation as a mode of performance across several early ludic genres: Middle English debate poetry, the fifteenth-century 'disguising' play, the Tudor Humanist debate interlude, and four Shakespearean works in which the dynamics of debate invite the plays' reconsideration under the new rubric of 'rhetorical problem plays.' Performing Arguments further establishes a distinction between instrumental argumentation, through which an arguer seeks to persuade an opponent or audience, and performative argumentation, through which the arguer provides an aesthetic display of verbal or intellectual skill with persuasion being of secondary concern, or of no concern at all. This study also examines rhetorical and performance theories and practices contemporary with the early texts and genres explored, and is further influenced by more recent critical perspectives on resonance and reception and theories of audience response and reconstruction.
| Author: Maura Giles-Watson |
| Publisher: Brill |
| Publication Date: 45337 |
| Number of Pages: 266 pages |
| Binding: Literary Criticism |
| ISBN-10: 9004535292 |
| ISBN-13: 9789004535299 |
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