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Belief Or Skepticism, Obedience Or Resistance To Authority, Theatricality Or Stoic Self-possession - Kenneth J.e. Graham Explores These Alternatives In The Culture Of Early Modern England. Focusing On Plainness - A Stylistic Feature Of Much Renaissance Writing - He Surveys Texts Including Wyatt's Anti-courtly Verse, The Puritan Admonition To Parliament, Ascham's Scholemaster, Greville's Non-dramatic Writings, And Works Of Shakespearean Tragedy, Revenge Tragedy, And Verse Satire. Graham Shows How Plainness Functions Not Only As A Literary Style, But Also As A Mode Of Political And Religious Rhetoric That Reflects Powerful Historical Currents. Plainness Is A Result Of The Claim To Possess The Plain Truth - A Self-evident, Absolute Truth. In The Absence Of Rhetorical Criteria For Truth, However, Plainness Registers A Conviction That Is Plain To Those Who Share It But Opaque To Those Who Don't. The Plain Truth Can Denote Either The Truth Proclaimed And Enforced By A Public Authority, Whether Liberal Or Conservative, Or The Truth Of Private Conviction, Which May Oppose Public Authority. According To Graham, The Pervasiveness Of Plainness In The Sixteenth And Early Seventeenth Centuries

Author

Graham, Kenneth J. E. (Kenneth John Emerson), 1960-

Publisher

Ithaca: Cornell University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801428715

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities