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Performing Arguments
Maura Giles-Watson
其他書名
Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama
出版BRILL, 2024-03-04
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / DramaHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / IrelandHistory / Europe / GeneralHistory / Europe / Renaissance
ISBN90045353069789004535305
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eO37EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.