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  • Passion's Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson

    Literature and the Sciences of Soul and Mind

    Passion's Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of mind and soul from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the novel. It chronicles the emergence of new sciences of the passions between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and it argues that this history was shaped by rhetoric that contained the most extensively particularized discourse on the passions, ... Leer más

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  • Textual Conversations in the Renaissance

    Ethics, Authors, Technologies

    'Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge', wrote Stephano Guazzo in his Civil Conversation. Like Guazzo's, this is a book dedicated to the Renaissance concept of conversation, a concept that functioned simultaneously as a privileged literary and rhetorical form (the dialogue), an intellectual and artistic program (the humanists' interactions with ancient texts), and a political ... Leer más

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  • The White Devil

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    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama
    Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jacobean tragedy. Part tragedy, part satire of a corrupt political world, the play explores the relations of the powerful to the disempowered; the opportunities and constraints of women trying to survive in a male-dominated society; the complex distribution ... Leer más

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  • Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present

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  • Rhetoric

    Series series The New Critical Idiom
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  • Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

    Series series Reading Women Writing
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  • Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology

    Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture

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    This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the past and helps explain late-twentieth-century modes of expression.Elegantly written and wide ranging, ... Leer más

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  • The Translator's Invisibility

    A History of Translation

    Series series Routledge Translation Classics
    Since publication over twenty years ago, The Translator’s Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English ... Leer más

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