The Performance of Conviction Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance
Language: English
Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1994
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- Title
- The Performance of Conviction Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance
- Author
- Graham, Kenneth J. E.
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- Cornell University Press, Ithaca
- Publication year
- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- English
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- 0801428718
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- 9780801428715
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 is evidence of a failure of consensus, as authorities made conflicting, irresolvable claims to certainty. The rhetoric of plainness, he asserts, reveals a profound opposition between the attitude of persuasion, a moderately skeptical, pragmatic, and inclusive outlook characteristic of Erasmian humanism, and a stance of conviction, an absolutist, essentialist, and exclusive attitude more typical of Neostoicism and political and moral conservatism.
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