{"product_id":"the-rhetoric-of-exemplarity-in-early-modern-england-hardcover-1","title":"The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Ullyot\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a recursive cycle driven by rhetoricians' words and readers' actions; and second, that positive moral examples are not replicable, but rather aspirational models of readers' posthumous biographies. For example, Alexander the Great envied Achilles less for his exemplary life than for Homer's account of it. Ullyot defines the three types of decorum on which exemplary rhetoric and imitation rely, and charts their operations through Philip Sidney's poetics, Edmund Spenser's poetry, and the dedications, sermons, elegies, biographies, and other occasional texts about Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, and Henry, Prince of Wales. Ullyot expands the definition of occasional texts to include those that criticize their circumstances to demand better ones, and historicizes moral exemplarity in the contexts of sixteenth-century\u003cbr\u003eProtestant memory and humanist pedagogy. \u003cem\u003eThe Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England\u003c\/em\u003e concludes that all exemplary subjects suffer from \u003cem\u003ethe problem of metonymy\u003c\/em\u003e, the objection that their chosen excerpts misrepresent their missing parts. This problem also besets historicist literary criticism, ever subject to corrections from the archive, so this study concedes that its own rhetorical methods are exemplary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Ullyot, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Calgary\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Ullyot is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary. His research includes articles, chapters on late Elizabethan and early Stuart culture, as well as edited primary texts. He has published (with Rebecca W. Bushnell) on Shakespeare and virtual reality; (with Adam J. Bradley) on algorithms for detecting rhetorical figures; on a quantitative model of the English-language sonnet; and on archives and artificial intelligence.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 9.44 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703745704243,"sku":"9780192849335","price":186.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UTBjZG56WldCTDZTdXlLUmxFcDV6dz09_6bdcd9e3-ede1-4a14-a2d3-f653d8555cc6.webp?v=1763337662","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-rhetoric-of-exemplarity-in-early-modern-england-hardcover-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}