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Magnusson analyses dialogue, conversation, sonnets and particularly letters of the period, which are normally read as historical documents, as the verbal negotiation of specific social and power relations.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 Magnusson creates a way of reading both literary texts and historical documents which bridges the gap between the methods of new historicism and linguistic criticism.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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... argue that to make further advances in 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 ...
... argue that to make further advances in 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 ...
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... arguing that such Shakespeare plays as Much Ado About Nothing and Othello exemplify a sophisticated rhetoric based not so much upon literary artifice as upon the potentiali- ties of conversation . 4 As a second strategy , I set ...
... arguing that such Shakespeare plays as Much Ado About Nothing and Othello exemplify a sophisticated rhetoric based not so much upon literary artifice as upon the potentiali- ties of conversation . 4 As a second strategy , I set ...
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... argued to be ahistorical ) “ may be employed as powerful tools of ideo- logical analysis . " 15 As with Rudanko's stance , a gap opens up , here one between the conceptual orientation to language as a social phenomenon and the ...
... argued to be ahistorical ) “ may be employed as powerful tools of ideo- logical analysis . " 15 As with Rudanko's stance , a gap opens up , here one between the conceptual orientation to language as a social phenomenon and the ...
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... argue that verbal discourse is a social phenomenon was to oppose a “ stylistics of ' private craftsmanship ” prevailing when he wrote " Discourse in the Novel " and long afterwards.1 It was also to interrupt the Saussurian binary ...
... argue that verbal discourse is a social phenomenon was to oppose a “ stylistics of ' private craftsmanship ” prevailing when he wrote " Discourse in the Novel " and long afterwards.1 It was also to interrupt the Saussurian binary ...
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... argument is that the verbal intricacy in each case arises out of a historically specific social relation and situation . In answer to claims often made that Shakespeare , through his private craftsman- ship in language , invents a new ...
... argument is that the verbal intricacy in each case arises out of a historically specific social relation and situation . In answer to claims often made that Shakespeare , through his private craftsman- ship in language , invents a new ...
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 indisponível - 2006 |
Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters Lynne Magnusson Pré-visualização indisponível - 1999 |
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