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基本説明
A study of the structure, poetics, and politics of literary digression from Donne through to Dryden, looks at such digression both as a rhetorical tool, and as a useful paradigm within which to explore the coincidence of public and private, politics and poetics.
Full Description
Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with deviation or departure from a course, subject, or standard. This book demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richly labyrinthine voices that captured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal loss. Anne Cotterill turns current sensitivity toward the silenced voice to argue that rhetorical amplitude might suggest anxieties about speech and attack for men forced to be competitive yet circumspect as they made their voices heard.
Contents
Introduction ; 1. Breathless: Digression and Survival in 1 Henry VI ; 2. 'Motion in Corruption': Digression and Descent in Donne's Anniversaries ; 3. Marvell's Watery Maze: Digression and Discovery at Nun Appleton ; 4. Sounding 'Wisdom's Way': Digression and Delay in Paradise Lost ; 5. Parenthesis at the Center: Digression and Mystery in The Hind and the Panther ; 6. The Devious Progress of Satire: Digression and Vengeance in Dryden's Late Preface ; 7. Dislocation, Dipossession, and the Voice Come Home: An Epilogue on the 'Modern' Digression ; Bibliography ; Index
