tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post2170760745147897262..comments2023-12-23T04:56:29.702-05:00Comments on Ferule & Fescue: Doubling forward, doubling backFlaviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-60658126687539746022008-10-24T05:57:00.000-04:002008-10-24T05:57:00.000-04:00That is great contents, I wish my blog have that p...That is great contents, I wish my blog have that popularity. my blog is <A HREF="http://famouspharaohs.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">http://famouspharaohs.blogspot.com</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-84880444540631727472008-01-28T22:14:00.000-05:002008-01-28T22:14:00.000-05:00I was just poking around in that Wright article a ...I was just poking around in that Wright article a little bit ago. Weirdly engaging for being basically a list. <BR/><BR/>I'm a simple girl; I like oxymorons best. Back when I was an ambitious grad student, rather than the beaten-down husk I am now, I wrote a long ol' thing on a very special kind of oxymoron I had discovered (ahem) in Sidney's sonnets. I named it, even.St. Ephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11611680292576283192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-32531916106317995522008-01-27T18:40:00.000-05:002008-01-27T18:40:00.000-05:00The process of editing my dissertation has become ...The process of editing my dissertation has become one long performance of getting rid of unnecessary hendiadys. <BR/><BR/>It was great getting the utterly random and serendipitous chance to meet you the other night, by the way. <BR/><BR/>See, there's another one, and I swear it wasn't intentional.negativecapabilityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08014108944008633157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-34280853999996717342008-01-25T11:53:00.000-05:002008-01-25T11:53:00.000-05:00H: Thanks for the reference--I'd come across it in...H: Thanks for the reference--I'd come across it in my slapdash internet research, but not read it. I'll be sure to check it out before I teach <I>Hamlet</I> again this term.<BR/><BR/>(And really: you should know by now that I try to elevate, estrange, and baffle my readers <I>every day</I>.)Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-9723735789000981552008-01-25T11:40:00.000-05:002008-01-25T11:40:00.000-05:00what now?, self-conscious folksiness probably come...what now?, self-conscious folksiness probably comes under the category of "ethos" more than figures or tropes: "Ethos names the persuasive appeal of one's character, especially how this character is established by means of the speech or discourse." <BR/><BR/>The quotation above comes from <A HREF="http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm" REL="nofollow">Silva Rhetoricae</A>, such an amazing, amazing website. It's entirely possible there's a name for the "figure" of folksiness as well, if one pokes around enough in there.Hieronimohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03809218002707778629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-53906008748719348642008-01-25T11:35:00.000-05:002008-01-25T11:35:00.000-05:00Best thing ever written about hendiadys: George T....Best thing ever written about hendiadys: George T. Wright, "Hendiadys and <I>Hamlet</I>," <I>PMLA</I> 96.2 (1981): 168-193.<BR/><BR/>Here's the abstract:<BR/>_______________________<BR/>In all his plays Shakespeare uses the Vergilian figure hendiadys some three hundred times, most frequently in his middle plays and most of all in Hamlet. Rare in English speech or other English poetry, hendiadys joins nouns, or sometimes adjectives, in a false or specious union (e.g., "sound and fury" for "furious sound"). Its effect in Hamlet, where it appears perhaps sixty-six times, is often to elevate, estrange, and baffle; and this stylistic use of conjoined terms that are neither parallel nor complementary mirrors the play's deepest themes--especially the suspect character of personal unions and metaphysical connections. Once aware that Shakespeare frequently combines terms this way, we can understand better many puzzling phrases, including some celebrated ones. Three appendixes list instances of hendiadys in Hamlet, tabulate its incidence in all the plays, and discuss some misleading definitions in the OED.<BR/>_________________________<BR/><BR/>It's a great essay, and a great one for teaching grads about the ways in which seemingly old-fashioned rhetorical analysis can be made to carry great weight.<BR/><BR/>Now, what it means for your own personal psychology, I don't know: "false or specious union"? uh oh.Hieronimohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03809218002707778629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-3031295666259690162008-01-25T07:22:00.000-05:002008-01-25T07:22:00.000-05:00Love a blog post that puts new life in old literar...Love a blog post that puts new life in old literary terms. Reaching for my M.H. Abrams now ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-68468474474975414922008-01-24T16:40:00.000-05:002008-01-24T16:40:00.000-05:00Ha! I want "stealth poet" on my business cards, RG...Ha! I want "stealth poet" on my business cards, RG.<BR/><BR/>But I think I'll settle for "prosodist."Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-88091947033355707842008-01-24T00:38:00.000-05:002008-01-24T00:38:00.000-05:00"pairs and trios of words and terms and clauses ju..."pairs and trios of words and terms and clauses just make rhythmic sense to me in ways I can't explain..."<BR/><BR/>I always suspected you were a stealth poet, Flavia...Renaissance Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06243095907452011303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-14497008112973886222008-01-23T22:22:00.000-05:002008-01-23T22:22:00.000-05:00Ooh, thanks for the vocab lesson! And now I shall ...Ooh, thanks for the vocab lesson! And now I shall scour my own drafts to analyze what my pet tropes may be. I love me some adverbs, but I think that doesn't qualify as a trope but is rather simply bad writing. Is self-conscious (but not exactly contrived) "folksiness" a trope, albeit one without a fancy Greek name? What about overuse of qualifying clauses inserted in the midst of the thing they are qualifying?<BR/><BR/>Plus, I love the word "pre-rejection."What Now?https://www.blogger.com/profile/04017629066466055668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-21210061564530963082008-01-23T20:52:00.000-05:002008-01-23T20:52:00.000-05:00Trillwing: I didn't know that one! Thanks for the ...Trillwing: I didn't know that one! Thanks for the introduction.<BR/><BR/>And Bro: yes, sort of, although not exactly--sometimes they aren't really related concepts that one nevertheless needs or wants to bring together. (And thanks also for your reporting from the field on The Youth of Today, on that previous post. Though maybe these days you're no more a youth than I am.)<BR/><BR/>Meg: is that really hendiadys? It just sounds like redundancy to me! Fowler calls these (and actually just about all the examples in this post--he follows the strict definition of hendiadys) "Siamese twins," and is on a warpath against the tautological ones like "betwixt and between." Or, well, he <I>was</I> on a warpath. Before he was dead.<BR/><BR/>And finally: I just noticed that one of the pairs in the sample passage I gave is actually conjoined with an "or," which I guess means it isn't properly an example of hendiadys after all. But I use lots of those, too, and in much the same way.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-4694530918840273582008-01-23T20:10:00.000-05:002008-01-23T20:10:00.000-05:00Don't tell Mothra Stewart about hendiadys, whateve...Don't tell Mothra Stewart about hendiadys, whatever you do. It would interfere with my dope-slapping her every time she says "each and every."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-874444360881794442008-01-23T18:29:00.000-05:002008-01-23T18:29:00.000-05:00Sounds like you're bracketing the true meeting wit...Sounds like you're bracketing the true meeting with the words that are closest. <BR/><BR/>It's easier to say "... leaves you feeling this and that" than it is to say " .. leaves you with a feeling that is somewhere between this and that."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-29397928081936252712008-01-23T16:31:00.000-05:002008-01-23T16:31:00.000-05:00I like things in threes, instead (unless you're re...I like things in threes, instead (unless you're reading Faulkner, where you get 5 or 6 completely unrelated but surprisingly evocative adjectives appended to every noun in long, pendulous sentences).<BR/><BR/>This reminds me of the Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition sketch by Monty Python. "The secret of the Spanish Inquisition is surprise.And fear. Two! The two secrets of the Spanish Inquisition are.."Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-29968371922534391832008-01-23T16:24:00.000-05:002008-01-23T16:24:00.000-05:00I'm an anacoluthon woman.I'm an anacoluthon woman.Leslie M-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434392840359276805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-55931624528218026982008-01-23T14:08:00.000-05:002008-01-23T14:08:00.000-05:00I'm fond of the polysyndeton, myself.I'm fond of the polysyndeton, myself.Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.com