Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language

by Joseph, Sister Miriam

• ISBN13: 9781589880252
• ISBN10: 1589880250
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

"This book manifests enormous learning and real wisdom in applying that erudition to contemporary readers." -Harold Bloom

Author Biography

Sister Miriam Joseph Rauh, CSC, was a member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross and a professor of English at Saint Mary''s College from 1931 to 1960. She was the author of The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, and many articles on Shakespeare and on the trivium.

Table of Contents

KEY TO REFERENCES	xiii
Part One: Introduction
I. THE GENERAL THEORY OF COMPOSITION AND OF READING IN SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND	3	(40)
1. The Concept of Art in Renaissance England	5	(3)
2. Training in the Arts in Renaissance England	8	(5)
3. English Works on Logic and Rhetoric	13	(5)
4. The Tradition	18	(4)
5. Invention and Disposition	22	(9)
6. Elocution or Style	31	(12)
Part Two: Shakespeare's Use of the Theory
II. SHAKESPEARE'S USE OF THE SCHEMES OF GRAMMAR, VICES OF LANGUAGE, AND FIGURES OF REPETITION	43	(47)
1. Schemes of Grammar	48	(16)
2. Vices of Language	64	(14)
3. Figures of Repetition	78	(12)
III. LOGOS: THE TOPICS OF INVENTION	90	(84)
1. Inartificial Arguments or Testimony	92	(16)
2. Definition	108	(3)
3. Division: Genus and Species, Whole and Parts	111	(8)
4. Subject and Adjuncts	119	(11)
5. Contraries and Contradictories	130	(11)
6. Similarity and Dissimilarity	141	(6)
7. Comparison: Greater, Equal, Less	147	(9)
8. Cause and Effect, Antecedent and Consequent	156	(6)
9. Notation and Conjugates	162	(12)
IV. LOGOS: ARGUMENTATION	174	(68)
1. Syllogistic Reasoning	176	(14)
2. Fallacious Reasoning	190	(13)
3. Disputation	203	(39)
V. PATHOS AND ETHOS	242	(51)
1. Pathos	242	(30)
2. Ethos	272	(14)
3. Conclusion	286	(7)
Part Three: The General Theory of Composition and Reading as Defined and Illustrated by Tudor Logicians and Rhetoricians
VI. SCHEMES OF GRAMMAR, VICES OF LANGUAGE, AND FIGURES OF REPETITION	293	(15)
1. Schemes of Grammar	293	(6)
2. Vices of Language	299	(6)
3. Figures of Repetition	305	(3)
VII. LOGOS: THE TOPICS OF INVENTION	308	(46)
1. Inartificial Arguments or Testimony	309	(3)
2. Definition	312	(2)
3. Division: Genus and Species, Whole and Parts	314	(4)
4. Subject and Adjuncts	318	(4)
5. Contraries and Contradictories	322	(3)
6. Similarity and Dissimilarity	325	(4)
7. Comparison: Greater, Equal, Less	329	(4)
8. Cause and Effect, Antecedent and Consequent	333	(5)
9. Notation and Conjugates	338	(4)
10. Genesis or Composition	342	(2)
11. Analysis or Reading	344	(10)
VIII. LOGOS: ARGUMENTATION	354	(32)
1. Syllogistic Reasoning	355	(10)
2. Fallacious Reasoning	365	(10)
3. Disputation	375	(11)
IX. PATHOS AND ETHOS	386	(15)
1. Pathos	386	(7)
2. Ethos	393	(5)
3. Conclusion	398	(3)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	401	(8)
A. Primary	401	(1)
B. Secondary	402	(7)
INDEX	409