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Humanism and Style
Essays on Erasmus and More
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2011
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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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Edition
1/2011
Copyright Year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61146-006-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-61146-007-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
150
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 9 - 18
1. Styles and Mixed Genres in Erasmus’s The Praise of Folly No access Pages 19 - 28
2. Some Medieval Elements and Structural Unity inErasmus’s The Praise of Folly No access Pages 29 - 37
3. The Liturgical and Historical Context of Erasmus’s Hymns No access Pages 38 - 45
4. The Logic and Rhetoric of Proverbs in Erasmus’sThe Praise of Folly No access Pages 46 - 57
5. The Epigrams of More and Erasmus: A Literary Diptych No access Pages 58 - 70
6. Style and Meaning in More’s Utopia: Hythloday’s Sentencesand Diction No access Pages 71 - 79
7. More’s Use of Patristic Evidence in the Eucharistic Controversy No access Pages 80 - 90
8. The Heart of the Final Struggle: More’s Commentary onThe Agony in the Garden No access Pages 91 - 104
9. Thomas More, a Man for All Seasons: Robert Bolt’s Playand the Elizabethan Play of Sir Thomas More No access Pages 105 - 110
10. Extraordinary Friends No access Pages 111 - 118
