Rules of Use
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-7546-0 (ISBN)
In its four case studies of texts by Ascham, Puttenham, Mulcaster, and the first English dictionary writers, Rules of Use shows the way in which early modern pedagogues attempted to articulate such a rule whilst being mindful that proper use can neither be determined by any single rule, nor definitively described in examples.
Using the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Stanley Cavell’s influential reading of it, Rules of Use argues that early modern pedagogues became entangled in a sceptical problem: aspiring to formulate a definitive rule of proper use, their own instruction begins to appear uncertain and lacking in assurance when they find such a rule cannot be expressed.
Julian Lamb is Assistant Professor of English Literary Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Towards a Grammar of Use
Pedagogy and Scepticism
The Augustinian Picture of Language
Context
Use, Usual, Useful
2. Using Perfection: Roger Ascham’s Toxophilus and The Scholemaster
Taking Aim: Toxophilus
Ascham’s Scepticism: The Scholemaster, Book 1
‘The daily use of writing’: The Scholemaster, Book 2
3. Decorous Abuse: George Puttenham’s The Art of English Poesy
Decorum and the Critics
The Art of Ambiguity
Usual Speech: The Eye and the Ear
Solace
4. Usual Spelling: Richard Mulcaster’s The First Part of the Elementarie
Jonathan Goldberg’s Reading of Mulcaster’s Elementarie
Grounds
Sound
Training
Sound, Reason, Custom
Rules and Use
5. Arts of Use: Early English Dictionaries, 1604-1658
Context
Johnson’s Dictionary: Aspiration and Resignation
‘Hard usuall English wordes’
An Unused Siding
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.2.2016 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 290 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4742-7546-X / 147427546X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4742-7546-0 / 9781474275460 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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