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050 00 $aPN721$b.R43 1995
082 00 $a809/.03$220
100 1 $aRebhorn, Wayne A.,$d1943-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77012443
245 14 $aThe emperor of men's minds :$bliterature and the Renaissance discourse of rhetoric /$cWayne A. Rebhorn.
260 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9501
300 $axviii, 276 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aRhetoric & society
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-270) and index.
520 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aAs 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.
520 8 $aAccording 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.
520 8 $aFinally, 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.
650 0 $aEuropean literature$yRenaissance, 1450-1600$xHistory.
650 0 $aRhetoric$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110803
830 0 $aRhetoric & society.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92008200
852 00 $bglx$hPN721$i.R43 1995
852 00 $bglx$hPN721$i.R43 1995