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The Virtue of Poetry: Energeia and Early Modern Poetics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Virtue of Poetry: Energeia and Early Modern Poetics./
Author:	DeWitt, Lindsay.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	287 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-06A.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30634186
ISBN:	9798381113211

The Virtue of Poetry: Energeia and Early Modern Poetics.
DeWitt, Lindsay.

The Virtue of Poetry: Energeia and Early Modern Poetics. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 287 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2023.

A dominant strand of early modern English literary criticism considered poetry to be both a site of and source for virtue: because poetry had verbal virtue, in the now-archaic sense of "strength, force, or energy," it was able to engender moral virtue in its audience. My dissertation uses the rhetorical figure of energeia to study the pragmatism that defined much of early modern English poetics. An etymological descendent of the Greek word for "work," ergon, and the ancestor of "energy," energeia is, at its most basic, the quality of language that enables poetry to move its audience. Foundational to early modern literary theory is a belief in poetry's unique ability to teach, delight, and move; this final effect encompasses the stirring of the readers' passions as well as their incitement to action, with the former precipitating the latter. Because movement of the audience was held as the end goal of poetry by those writers who saw it as a social tool, energeia occupies a vital position in early modern poetics; its analysis illuminates the path leading from poetic form to the animation of feeling to material operation and social change. My project offers a meticulous examination of energeia and the various denotations and connotations that it had accumulated by the time it entered English literary criticism, including efficacy, vigor, liveliness, aptness, actualization, and sublimity. My methodology involves studying the figure in period rhetoric and poetics, as well as looking back to their classical influences, and tracing energeia's path through theories of metaphor, decorum, affect, form, representation, and the sublime. I use this historical research on energeia and its ancillary concepts to analyze the figure as it appears in four works of sixteenth-century English poetry: Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender, Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, and the Sidney-Pembroke psalter. My dissertation ultimately offers a new consideration of poetry as an instrument capable of making society more virtuous in the most expansive sense: more powerful, more ethical, full of people more capable of knowing themselves and their own inherent worth.

ISBN: 9798381113211Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Marlowe, Christopher

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