Humanism and Style
Essays on Erasmus and More
1st Edition
Published on 12. May 2011
150 pages
978-1-61146-583-9 (ISBN)
Description
Clarence Miller's Humanism and Style: Essays on Erasmus and More provides an illuminating and circumstantial engagement with the important works of two great humanists, especially their masterpieces, The Praise of Folly and Utopia. He shows how they were deeply influenced by the very medieval world that they rejected as they were seeking to recover vital connections to the classics and the church fathers. Miller's essays cover a complex terrain that includes the rhetorical functions of stylistic shifts, the deployment of proverbial wisdom, engagement with ancient texts in an early modern setting, and the challenges of maintaining a stance of faith in a world always muddied in its history. These essays disclose a sensibility in the work of Erasmus and More that is already attuned to many insights that have emerged with contemporary literary theory.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
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NJ
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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978-1-61146-583-9 (9781611465839)
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Lehigh University Press
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Clarence H. Miller was the Dorothy Orthwein Professor in the English Department at St. Louis University from 1969 until his retirement in 2000. He was also a visiting professor at the Universities of Wüerzburg, Bochum, and Yale.
Jerry Harp is the author of three books of poems and two scholarly works: Constant Motion: Ongian Hermeneutics and the Shifting Ground of Early Modern Understanding and For Us, What Music? The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice. He teaches at Lewis & Clark College.
Jerry Harp is the author of three books of poems and two scholarly works: Constant Motion: Ongian Hermeneutics and the Shifting Ground of Early Modern Understanding and For Us, What Music? The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice. He teaches at Lewis & Clark College.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 1. Styles and Mixed Genres in Erasmus's The Praise of Folly
Chapter 3 2. Some Medieval Elements and Structural Unity in Erasmus's The Praise of Folly
Chapter 4 3. The Liturgical and Historical Context of Erasmus's Hymns
Chapter 5 4. The Logic and Rhetoric of Proverbs in Erasmus's The Praise of Folly
Chapter 6 5. The Epigraphs of More and Erasmus: A Literary Diptych
Chapter 7 6. Style and Meaning in More's Utopia Hythloday's Sentences and Diction
Chapter 8 7. More's Use of Patristic Evidence in the Eucharistic Controversy
Chapter 9 8. The Heart of the Final Struggle: More's Commentary on The Agony in the Garden
Chapter 10 9.Thomas More, a Man for All Seasons:Robert Bolt's Play and the Elizabethan Play of Sir Thomas More
Chapter 11 10. Extraordinary Friends
Chapter 12 Notes
Chapter 13 Bibliography
Chapter 14 Index
Chapter 2 1. Styles and Mixed Genres in Erasmus's The Praise of Folly
Chapter 3 2. Some Medieval Elements and Structural Unity in Erasmus's The Praise of Folly
Chapter 4 3. The Liturgical and Historical Context of Erasmus's Hymns
Chapter 5 4. The Logic and Rhetoric of Proverbs in Erasmus's The Praise of Folly
Chapter 6 5. The Epigraphs of More and Erasmus: A Literary Diptych
Chapter 7 6. Style and Meaning in More's Utopia Hythloday's Sentences and Diction
Chapter 8 7. More's Use of Patristic Evidence in the Eucharistic Controversy
Chapter 9 8. The Heart of the Final Struggle: More's Commentary on The Agony in the Garden
Chapter 10 9.Thomas More, a Man for All Seasons:Robert Bolt's Play and the Elizabethan Play of Sir Thomas More
Chapter 11 10. Extraordinary Friends
Chapter 12 Notes
Chapter 13 Bibliography
Chapter 14 Index
