Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
The emperor of men's minds : literature and the Renaissance discourse of rhetoric / Wayne A. Rebhorn.
Author
Rebhorn, Wayne A., 1943-
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Description
xviii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
PN721 .R43 1995
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
European literature
—
Renaissance, 1450-1600
—
History and criticism
[Browse]
Rhetoric, Renaissance
[Browse]
Rhetoric
—
History
—
16th century
[Browse]
Series
Rhetoric & society
[More in this series]
Summary note
"In a book that will change the way we read Renaissance rhetoric, Wayne A. Rebhorn shows that the issues at stake are not dialogue and debate but power and control. Looking closely at what rhetoricians themselves said about their art, Rebhorn explores the profound engagement of rhetoric with some of the major cultural concerns of the time, including political authority, social mobility, gender relations, and attitudes toward the body." "As he reads texts by Shakespeare, Jonson, Herbert, Carew, Tirso de Molina, Machiavelli, Rabelais, and Moliere, among others, Rebhorn offers a new model for the rhetorical reading of literature. Renaissance literature, he maintains, subjects rhetorical discourse to examination and evaluation and in the process exposes its many contradictions and evasions." "According to Rebhorn, rhetoricians imagine orators ambiguously, both as absolutist rulers who employ rhetoric to help maintain the status quo, and as base-born outsiders who use it to promote their own social advancement or even to resist authority. Renaissance rhetoric is equally ambiguous when it confronts issues of gender, for it identifies itself as simultaneously male and female, both "masculine" in its power and "feminine" in its procreativity and adornment. Finally, Renaissance rhetoric conveys a contradictory vision of the body, for although it is most typically aligned with the body image associated with elites, it simultaneously identities itself with the ethically suspect, grotesque body linked with the lower classes."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-270) and index.
Contents
Bound to rule
Rulers and rebels
Circe's garden, Mercury's rod
Banish the monsters.
Show 1 more Contents items
ISBN
080142562X ((alk. paper))
9780801425622 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
94034553
OCLC
31011729
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information