Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan LettersCambridge University Press, 28/03/1999 - 221 páginas Shakespeare and Social Dialogue deals with Shakespeare's language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters. Moving beyond claims about the language of individual Shakespearean characters, Magnusson analyses dialogue, conversation, sonnets and particularly letters of the period, which are normally read as historical documents, as the verbal negotiation of specific social and power relations. Thus, the rhetoric of service or friendship is explored in texts as diverse as Sidney family letters, Shakespearean sonnets and Burghley's state letters. The book draws on ideas from discourse analysis and linguistic pragmatics, especially 'politeness theory', relating these to key ideas in epistolary handbooks of the period, including those by Erasmus and Angel Day and demonstrates that Shakespeare's language is rooted in the everyday language of Elizabethan culture. Magnusson creates a way of reading both literary texts and historical documents which bridges the gap between the methods of new historicism and linguistic criticism. |
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... understanding Shakespeare's verbal achievement , it is necessary to turn attention away for a time from his private craftsman- ship in words and to develop a better understanding of social invention in language - and of the richly ...
... understanding Shakespeare's verbal achievement , it is necessary to turn attention away for a time from his private craftsman- ship in words and to develop a better understanding of social invention in language - and of the richly ...
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... understanding is mediated through various linguistic and cultural frames of reception , letters exchanged in Shakespeare's day nonetheless give the clearest idea of how relative social positioning affected language and style in ways ...
... understanding is mediated through various linguistic and cultural frames of reception , letters exchanged in Shakespeare's day nonetheless give the clearest idea of how relative social positioning affected language and style in ways ...
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... understand discourse as a social phenomenon is to imagine a multi - languaged world - a plenitude of colliding and overlapping dis- courses discourses associated with the huge range of human enter- prises specific to any time and place ...
... understand discourse as a social phenomenon is to imagine a multi - languaged world - a plenitude of colliding and overlapping dis- courses discourses associated with the huge range of human enter- prises specific to any time and place ...
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... understanding of how social invention and Shake- speare's invention intersect , since Shakespeare's creativity with lan ... understand character construction in language . Given the traditional belle - lettristic conven- tion of the ...
... understanding of how social invention and Shake- speare's invention intersect , since Shakespeare's creativity with lan ... understand character construction in language . Given the traditional belle - lettristic conven- tion of the ...
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... understand the social stratification of Shakespeare's verbal world . Not only the patterns of emulation but also the ... understanding , or at least his plays ' knowledge - in - practice , of the much - neglected complex- ity and ...
... understand the social stratification of Shakespeare's verbal world . Not only the patterns of emulation but also the ... understanding , or at least his plays ' knowledge - in - practice , of the much - neglected complex- ity and ...
Índice
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PART II Eloquent relations in letters | 59 |
PART III A prosaics of conversation | 139 |
Notes | 183 |
Bibliography | 208 |
Index | 217 |
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Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters Lynne Magnusson Pré-visualização limitada - 1999 |
Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters Lynne Magnusson Pré-visualização indisponível - 2006 |
Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters Lynne Magnusson Pré-visualização indisponível - 1999 |
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