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Uncommon Tongues : Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance / Catherine Nicholson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 3 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812245585
  • 9780812208801
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/003 23
LOC classification:
  • PR418.E45
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Antisocial Orpheus -- Chapter 1. Good Space and Time: Humanist Pedagogy and the Uses of Estrangement -- Chapter 2. The Commonplace and the Far-Fetched: Mapping Eloquence in the English Art of Rhetoric -- Chapter 3. "A World to See": Euphues's Wayward Style -- Chapter 4. Pastoral in Exile: Colin Clout and the Poetics of English Alienation -- Chapter 5. "Conquering Feet": Tamburlaine and the Measure of English -- Coda. Eccentric Shakespeare -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe loudly announced their ambitions for the mother tongue-but the extremity of their stylistic innovations yielded texts that seemed hardly English at all. Critics likened Lyly's hyperembellished prose to a bejeweled "Indian," complained that Spenser had "writ no language," and mocked Marlowe's blank verse as a "Turkish" concoction of "big-sounding sentences" and "termes Italianate." In its most sophisticated literary guises, the much-vaunted common tongue suddenly appeared quite foreign.In Uncommon Tongues, Catherine Nicholson locates strangeness at the paradoxical heart of sixteenth-century vernacular culture. Torn between two rival conceptions of eloquence, savvy writers and teachers labored to reconcile their country's need for a consistent, accessible mother tongue with the expectation that poetic language depart from everyday speech. That struggle, waged by pedagogical theorists and rhetoricians as well as authors we now recognize as some of the most accomplished and significant in English literary history, produced works that made the vernacular's oddities, constraints, and defects synonymous with its virtues. Such willful eccentricity, Nicholson argues, came to be seen as both the essence and antithesis of English eloquence.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Antisocial Orpheus -- Chapter 1. Good Space and Time: Humanist Pedagogy and the Uses of Estrangement -- Chapter 2. The Commonplace and the Far-Fetched: Mapping Eloquence in the English Art of Rhetoric -- Chapter 3. "A World to See": Euphues's Wayward Style -- Chapter 4. Pastoral in Exile: Colin Clout and the Poetics of English Alienation -- Chapter 5. "Conquering Feet": Tamburlaine and the Measure of English -- Coda. Eccentric Shakespeare -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe loudly announced their ambitions for the mother tongue-but the extremity of their stylistic innovations yielded texts that seemed hardly English at all. Critics likened Lyly's hyperembellished prose to a bejeweled "Indian," complained that Spenser had "writ no language," and mocked Marlowe's blank verse as a "Turkish" concoction of "big-sounding sentences" and "termes Italianate." In its most sophisticated literary guises, the much-vaunted common tongue suddenly appeared quite foreign.In Uncommon Tongues, Catherine Nicholson locates strangeness at the paradoxical heart of sixteenth-century vernacular culture. Torn between two rival conceptions of eloquence, savvy writers and teachers labored to reconcile their country's need for a consistent, accessible mother tongue with the expectation that poetic language depart from everyday speech. That struggle, waged by pedagogical theorists and rhetoricians as well as authors we now recognize as some of the most accomplished and significant in English literary history, produced works that made the vernacular's oddities, constraints, and defects synonymous with its virtues. Such willful eccentricity, Nicholson argues, came to be seen as both the essence and antithesis of English eloquence.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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